Two Maryland men were sentenced Wednesday for an armed home invasion in Northwest Washington, officials said.
Eddie Griffin, 25, and Laquet Campbell, 21, pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court in April to first-degree burglary while armed and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Griffin was sentenced to 8 years in prison, and Campbell was sentenced to 7-and-a-half years in prison.
A third defendent, 20-year-old Rayvon Jones, also pleaded guilty in April and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 10.
On Sept. 15, Campbell, Griffin and Jones drove a U-Haul into the District so they could burglarize a home in the 500 block of Rock Creek Church Road NW, prosecutors said. They entered the home with a weapon and assaulted two victims in their bedrooms.
Jones was armed with what a victim described as a shotgun and followed Campbell into the first victim’s bedroom. Campbell pushed the victim onto his bed, and Jones put the firearm at the back of the victim’s neck and demanded money, prosecutors said. The two men took two laptops, two iPhones, a blue duffle bag and a pair of blue and white sneakers, authorities said.
At the same time, Griffin entered the second victim’s bedroom, forced the victim to the floor and struck him on the back of his head. Griffin took two laptops and an iPhone from the bedroom, prosecutors said.
The three men also took other items from the house, including a 32-inch flat-screen television.
