A second man has been charged in the August 2017 armed robbery attempt at a Verizon Wireless store in Inver Grove Heights.
Jaquon Keshawn Moman, 25, faces two counts of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, according to charges filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court. The second robbery charge against Moman stems from a July 2017 holdup at a Metro PCS store in Minneapolis.
Moman’s alleged accomplice in the attempted robbery of the Verizon store, 33-year-old Jamaal Marquie Mays, was charged in November with one count each of interference with commerce by robbery, brandishing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence and possessing a firearm as a felon.
Mays pleaded not guilty to the federal charges at an Oct. 25 hearing in Minneapolis.
Shortly before 11 a.m. on Aug. 17, Mays and Moman allegedly entered the Verizon store at Concord Boulevard and Cahill Avenue. Mays pointed a .45-caliber handgun at the clerk’s head and told him to “make it easy on me,” but the clerk drew his own gun and shot Mays twice, according to earlier charges filed in Dakota County.
Mays was critically injured and spent several days at Regions Hospital in St. Paul recovering from his wounds.
Moman allegedly fled the Verizon store in a minivan. The indictment did not say how he was eventually apprehended.
The case was investigated by the Inver Grove Heights Police Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.