Apple Valley Man Charged with First-Degree Robbery

An Apple Valley man has been charged with first-degree aggravated robbery after police say he and an accomplice robbed a man in Minneapolis at gunpoint earlier this week.

Deanthony Marcell Taylor, 22, is charged with a felony, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $35,000 fine. He was released from the Hennepin County Jail Friday on a $20,000 bond.

According to the criminal complaint, Minneapolis police were called to the intersection of Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue South just after midnight Monday and found the victim.

The man told police that he had been walking through a parking lot when Taylor and Isaiah Juaquin Washington, 21, of Minneapolis approached him. The victim said Washington pulled a black handgun from his pants and pointed it at his chest, ordering the victim to give him money.

The victim took about $280 in cash from his pocket and tossed it to Washington, the complaint says. Washington picked it up and returned to his car with Taylor, who drove out of the parking lot.

The victim gave police the car’s license number and physical and clothing descriptions for both suspects.

Police located the car at its registered address and found a loaded black revolver behind the car’s radio console, according to the complaint. The victim subsequently identified Washington and Taylor as the men who accosted him.

Washington, who is also charged with first-degree aggravated robbery, was released earlier this week on a $50,000 bond.

Taylor’s criminal history includes convictions for domestic assault in 2009 and violating a domestic abuse no-contact order in 2010, both in Polk County.