9-06-2023 5:26pm

L.A. Man Pleads Guilty to Robbery Charge and Admits to Crime Spree in Which He Robbed 8 Businesses and Carjacked One Victim

Anita Johnson-Brown Editor

LOS ANGELES –Namir Malik Ali Greene, 23, a resident of Los Angeles pleaded guilty on September 5, to a federal criminal charge and confessed in court to executing a carjacking and eight armed thefts of gas stations and convenience marts in Los Angeles County during a four-day spree in April. Greene pleaded guilty to one count of Hobbs Act robbery.

According to Greene's plea agreement, on Tuesday, during the early morning hours of April 4, Greene robbed a gas station located in Marina del Rey. Greene bought something and stayed inside of the gas station until all other patrons vacated the store. Greene then placed a brown paper bag on the counter and told the clerk, “Put everything in there.”

The defendant pointed what was thought to be a black semi-automatic firearm, but was a BB gun, at the store clerk while demanding the cash.

In fear, the clerk opened the cash register and placed $700 into the brown paper bag. Greene then exited the store.

In Greene's plea agreement, He admitted to engaging in seven other armed robberies from April 4 to April 8 of gas stations and convenience marts in Long Beach, South Los Angeles, Pomona, Whittier, and Culver City.

Greene additionally confessed to the April 15 carjacking of the owner of a 2010 Honda Accord while armed with a BB gun. Greene's been in federal custody since April 18.

United States District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett set a November 29 sentencing hearing, at which time Greene will face a statutory maximum sentence of 240 months in federal prison.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Orange County Violent Crime Task Force (OCVCTF) investigated this matter, with assistance from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery Homicide Division and the Ontario Police Department. The OCVCTF is comprised of federal and local law enforcement agencies, including, but not limited to, the ATF, the Brea Police Department, the Santa Ana Police Department, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, and the Fullerton Police Department.

Assistant United States Attorneys Jeffrey M. Chemerinsky and Jena A. MacCabe of the Violent and Organized Crime Section are prosecuting this case.

By Anita Johnson-Brown