One of three Memphis men involved in a string of 2021 hotel robberies in the city was sentenced to 31 years in prison earlier this week.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee, Reginald Rose, 30, of Memphis, will spend the next three decades behind bars.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark S. Norris sentenced Rose, months after sentencing two of Rose’s accomplices in the robberies, also Memphis men.
“Memphis resident Gregory Moore, 24, was sentenced on May 18, 2023, and resident Randy Jack, 27, was sentenced on March 1, 2023,” according to the release. “Judge Norris sentenced both Moore and Jack to 168 months and one day in prison after they pled guilty to four of the same robbery charges. Judge Norris also ordered that both Moore and Jack serve three years of supervised release.”
One hundred sixty-eight months is 14 years.
There is no parole in the federal justice system, so all three men will serve their full sentences.
In two days, August 5 to August 7, 2021, the three men robbed four Memphis hotels at gunpoint. A fifth armed robbery was committed on August 8 by Rose and Moore.
“On August 5, 2021, Randy Jack and Reginald Rose entered the Quality Suites, 2575 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Memphis, and Jack pointed a firearm at the employee, demanding money,” the release says. “Rose stood in front of the counter to distract the other victims and employees. After taking money from the cash registers, the pair fled to a waiting getaway car driven by Moore.”
The trio robbed two more Quality Inn and Suites Hotels, an Extended Stay America Hotel, and a Microtel Inn and Suites.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Safe Streets Task Force investigated the cases.
According to Neighborhood Scout, Memphis has the fourth-highest crime rate of any city of its size in the United States. The total violent crime rate per 1,000 in the city is 25.15.
The robbery rate per 1000 is 3.97 in Memphis, compared to the national average of just .61 per 1,000.
Memphis also ranks higher than the national average in murders, rapes, assaults, and property crimes.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
They’ll need to commission a scientific study to understand why Memphis has such high crime.