CVS Robbery Conviction Leads To PA Prison Sentence

NORRISTOWN, PA — A Virginia man will be spending between 8 to 16 years in a Pennsylvania prison after being sentenced in connection with his participation in a robbery of a Montgomery County CVS three years ago.

Dante Salley, of Virginia Beach, Va., received sentence on Sept. 19, the day of his 36th birthday.

He was handed a prison sentence by Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas P. Rogers following a jury conviction back in early June, according to court records in the case.

Salley was found guilty on four felony counts: robbery, conspiracy, theft by unlawful taking and criminal use of a communications facility.

Records show he was arrested and charged by the Cheltenham Township Police Department in March 2020.

The case dated back to October 2019, when Salley and Torrey Lee Thompson, 52, of Philadelphia, were co-conspirators in the robbery of the CVS Pharmacy at 45 Cheltenham Avenue in Cheltenham Township, according to a report in the Mercury newspaper.

The story says the two men traumatized cashiers as they went into the store, implied they had a firearm, and proceeded to order clerks to fill a sack with money.

Police eventually caught up with the robbers, thanks in part to a GPS tracker that had been placed with the cash, and also with the help of surveillance footage and other leads, the Mercury reported.

Fingerprint and cellphone information also helped detectives catch the defendants.

Court records show that Thompson was convicted on the same felony counts during trial in June and sentenced by Rogers to a prison term of 12-and-a-half to 25 years.

The criminal dockets for the two cases show that each men received consecutive prison sentences on their convictions on the separate criminal charges, as opposed to concurrent sentencing, showing that the punishment for each defendant was harsher than it could have been.