Accomack Co. Deputies Help Robbery Victim in Newport News



Quanetta Breana Crosby and Deandra Javal Whiting
Credit: Newport News Police Dept

NEWPORT NEWS -- Two people are charged and charges are pending against a third person for attacking a man and trying to take his beer.

Deandra Javal Whiting, 19, Quanetta Breana Crosby, 18, and another woman allegedly robbed the man as he was walking home from a convenience store on Jefferson Avenue on Oct. 16.

Two Accomack County deputies, at a nearby fast food restaurant, were alerted to the crime by a passerby and went to help.  They found the 25-year-old victim on the ground.

He told them three people, one with a knife, demanded money and when he said he didn't have any, they grabbed his bag of beer. Then he started screaming, said police spokesman Lou Thurston.

One of the officers spotted two possible suspects and went after them. Crosby was arrested, but Whiting ran off, according to investigators.

Whiting was arrested Tuesday afternoon and faces charges of abduction, robbery and assault.

Crosby is charged with robbery and malicious wounding.

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(No word on the names of the two Accomack Deputies)