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Date: 05-26-2023
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Case Number: 4:22-cr-00008
Judge: R. Stan Baker
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia (Chatham County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in Savannah
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Description: Savannah, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in an arson spree that damaged multiple vehicles, a residence, and a business.
Calvin Frank Robbins, 41, of Savannah, was pleaded guilty to Destruction of Motor Vehicles
“Calvin Frank Robbins potentially endangered dozens of lives, including those of first responders extinguishing multiple raging vehicle fires,” said U.S. Attorney Steinberg. “This sentence will hold him accountable while protecting the community.”
As described in court documents and testimony, Savannah firefighters were called to a vehicle fire on West Harris Street late in the evening on Dec. 1, 2021, and while extinguishing the fire – which also damaged a nearby building – firefighters saw heavy smoke coming from the Savannah Visitor’s Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. That fire damaged a tour bus and a van in the parking lot, while another nearby fire on Purse Street damaged the front porch of an under-renovation residence owned by the Coastal Heritage Society. Other vehicles also received minor damage.
Investigators from the Savannah Fire Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives identified Robbins from witness accounts and surveillance videos, and he was carrying a can of gasoline when agents located and arrested him several days later.
“Arson is an extremely violent crime that not only destroys property but also places firefighters, first responders and the general public at great risk,” said Beau Kolodka, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the ATF Atlanta Field Division. “The ATF, along with the Savannah Fire Department and our other law enforcement partners, are committed to ensuring that our communities are safe and that those who commit these dangerous acts are held accountable.”
The case was investigated by the ATF and the Savannah Fire Department Arson Unit, and prosecuted for the United States by Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank M. Pennington II.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 41 months in prison and was ordered to pay nominal restitution, and to serve three years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.
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