A Philadelphia man was given three life sentences after being convicted of three counts of robbery with a firearm, which included a slot machine arcade in Cape Coral. <\/p>\n
Jwyanza Quadaar Chito, 38, was sentenced Thursday after a jury returned a guilty verdict following a three-day trial in Lee County. <\/p>\n
According to the State Attorney\u2019s Office, on May 17 of 2022, Chito went to a slot machine arcade in Cape Coral and held the clerk at gunpoint. SAO officials said he stole between $20,000 and $30,000 before fleeing to North Fort Myers. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe went into another slot machine arcade and held the clerk there at gunpoint and stole about $1,000,\u201d a release from the SAO stated. \u201cOn his way out, he held a patron at gunpoint and grabbed her purse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chito was apprehended two months later, SAO officials stated, with the firearm and extended magazine that were used in all three robberies in his possession. <\/p>\n
The Cape Coral Police Department and Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigated the cases. <\/p>\n
Chito has an additional robbery case pending. <\/p>\n
Assistant State Attorney Olivia Ferrell and Assistant State Attorney Frank Lazzaro prosecuted the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man was given three life sentences after being convicted of three counts of robbery with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-38263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}