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A D.C. federal judge sentenced Ashley Gause to 140 months for co-leading a Mid-Atlantic robbery crew.
FOX 5 DC and WJLA reported that on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Ashley Gause, 33, of Washington, D.C., to 140 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release after a jury convicted her of Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy, drug-distribution conspiracy, and eight robbery counts tied to a May 2020–May 2021 armed spree targeting pharmacies and cellphone stores across D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey.
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A federal sentence after a jury conviction is the judgment on those counts. Prosecutors had asked for 235 months. Co-defendants already sentenced include D'Marrell Mitchell at 192 months and Floyd Neal at 157 months, as FOX 5 DC reported.
FOX 5 DC and WJLA reported that on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Ashley Gause, 33, of Washington, D.C., to 140 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Both stations, citing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, said a federal jury in October 2025 convicted her of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and eight individual robbery counts after a six-week trial.
Prosecutors said that from May 2020 through May 2021, Gause and co-conspirators targeted more than a dozen pharmacies and cellphone stores in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey, often brandishing firearms, and stole about $300,000 in cash, phones, and prescription drugs for resale in the District, FOX 5 DC and WJLA reported. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said the crew treated the stores as personal cash machines and left employees scarred for life, as those outlets quoted the office. WJLA reported she was convicted on five robberies in which crew members pointed or displayed a firearm.
FOX 5 DC listed related sentences already entered: D'Marrell Mitchell, 36, to 192 months; Floyd Neal, 32, to 157 months; Terrance Barnham, 36, to 78 months; Glenn Dolford, 32, to 80 months concurrent with a separate 22-year D.C. Superior Court murder sentence; and Ashawntea Henderson, 33, to 57 months. Those are the co-defendants' judgments as reported. They are not Gause's term. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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