Prince George's Man Enters Plea In Convenience Store Robbery, ATM Theft

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty for his role in robbing a convenience store, assaulting a store employee and breaking open an ATM.

According to the guilty plea, on Aug. 4, 2023, Clarence Antonio Lynch traveled to a Laurel convenience store with the intention of robbing it. He was armed with at least one firearm. Lynch went into the store and used physical restraint to force an employee at the convenience store into an office by pulling the employee by his collar and breaking his necklace. Then Lynch used a hydraulic tool to force open the store’s automated teller machine (ATM). Lynch took $65,780 in cash from the ATM’s trays, court documents showed. Lynch also used a firearm to force the employee to take $6,940 in cash from the office along with $11,852 in cigarettes.

Lynch faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years and a maximum of life in federal prison followed by up to five years of supervised release for these offenses. U.S. District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby has scheduled his sentencing for Sept. 2 at 1 p.m.