Frederick Lopez Jr. has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of an armed robbery in 2018.
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years of pressure for an armed robbery produced in four Gamestop chain stores in California, United States, during the past year 2018. According to information advanced by Polygon, the convicted, Frederick Lopez Jr., took merchandising worth US $ 131,000.
The four assaults were carried out in the Californian counties of Orange and Los Angeles. In all of them, Lopez came with a gun in his hand to threaten the clerks and to loot the cash registers. The Office of the State of California Advocate sentenced the person involved last August, an opinion finally failed on January 27, as detailed in the official statement.
In total, Lopez accumulated an amount of $ 131,000 in all kinds of products, both consoles and games and derivatives; although the broken down list has not been made official. To this we must add a surplus of 1,300 dollars of cash in their blows. In addition to the prison sentence, the convicted person is obliged to pay that amount as restitution.
According to the information, Nintendo of America is one of the companies affected and involved in the police investigation by delivering a list of stolen consoles during these robberies. After clues, evidence and other data collected, the commissioners managed to find the identity of the raider; especially after contacting a person who bought Lopez one of these stolen consoles. Thus, Lopez would have been responsible for selling – at least – one of the dozens of stolen consoles and games.
Prosecutors involved in the case have commented, on the occasion of the statement: “Armed robberies such as these, where victims are targeted with firearms and white weapons, also lasting consequences and traumas that victims will remember for years; some for all his life. ” No victim had to be regretted, apparently.
The current situation related to GameStop leaves an undesirable panorama for the company, which has been dealing for a few weeks with a stock market crash resulting from the announcement of the closure of 50 of its physical chains in the United States. The retailer reported last December sales of 1183 million dollars, 27.5% below the same period in 2018.
