2 men sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbing Beaumont taqueria in 2018

BEAUMONT, Texas – Two Houston men have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbing a taqueria in Beaumont in 2018. Both men, 31-year-old Rober...

May 1, 2023
3:18 AM

BEAUMONT, Texas – Two Houston men have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbing a taqueria in Beaumont in 2018. Both men, 31-year-old Robert Lewis Johnson, Jr. and 24-year-old Bryant Demetri West, pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm during the robbery at the Tacos La Bamba restaurant in Beaumont and were sentenced to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Marcia Crone. According to court documents, on the morning of December 15, 2018, Johnson and West drove a stolen truck to Tacos La Bamba in Beaumont and entered the restaurant with handguns.

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