Pair Sentenced to Federal Prison for Weeyums Philly Style Cheese Steaks Armed Robbery, Attempted Bank Robbery
"We're glad it's all over with and we're moving on," said the owner of Weeyums, whose son was shot in the arm during the November 2010 incident.
A U.S. District judge has sentenced a father from Conyers and his son, who is from the Stone Mountain area, this week to federal prison on several charges including armed commercial robbery, attempted bank robbery, and using and carrying firearms during crimes of violence, U.S. Attorney's office for the Northen District of Georgia said in a press release. The two were charged in the November 2010 robbery of Weeyums Philly Style Cheese Steaks in Stone Mountain Village, in which William "Joe" Dawson, son of the restaurant's owner, was shot in the arm. His father told Patch his son, now 25, is doing fine. The father and son crime pair also attempted to rob a Wells Fargo Bank on Clairmont Road. Judge William S. Duffey, Jr. sentenced the son, …
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