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The group — Florida men Darius Hudson, Chrishawn De’Earl Butler, Daniel Jackson, Reginald Robert Jr and Nathaniel Carr — drove around in a black Dodge Durango and a white Chevrolet Malibu equipped with blue flashing lights and wore all black clothes with “Sheriff” emblazoned on them.
During the robberies, the victims and their families were awoken in the middle of the night and beaten, pistol-whipped, threatened and shot on some occasions.
A jury convicted an Arcadia man of conspiracy to commit multiple armed robberies and violent crimes while pretending to be a police officer.
An Arcadia man is at least the second person convicted for his role in armed robberies across the Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida, authorities said.
A woman is facing 20 years in federal prison after assisting in armed robberies by stealing personal data from company software.