Justin Schweiger, one of five former Walt Whitman High student-athletes charged with robbing a Bethesda Smoothie King, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
Schweiger, 17, is alleged to have waited in a car while Robert Warren entered the store, presented an inoperable gun, and took $463. The jury found Schweiger not guilty of conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a dangerous weapon. On Tuesday, Judge William Rowan dismissed a charge of armed robbery against Schweiger.
Schweiger will be sentenced Jan. 23. Until then, he must wear a monitoring ankle bracelet and meet curfew. Rowan denied Schweiger’s appeal to lift his house restriction.
“We’re very disappointed,” said Schweiger’s attorney, Daniel Steven. “We don’t believe the evidence supports the verdict.”
Steven declined to say whether Schweiger would appeal.
