Deonte Lamont Greer pleaded guilty Monday to holding up a Western Finance, trying to rob a Cash Store minutes earlier the same day and stealing a shotgun and cash from a home in Wichita Falls, according to court records. The year-old Wichita Falls man was sentenced to 43 years total in prison Monday in a plea bargain in 30th District Court, according to court records. However, Greer's sentences -- 19 for robbery, five for attempted aggravated robbery and 19 for burglary of a habitation -- will run concurrently.
An earlier online version of this story did not clarify how he is to serve his sentences. Greer's accomplice fingered him as the wheel man in the armed robbery of a Western Finance about p. Greer and Jeh'Cobi Dewayne Barnes, 23, wore hoodies cinched down around their faces so only their eyes and brow areas showed upon entering the store, according to court records. They fled on foot. A witness saw a gray Ford Mustang parked behind Western Finance and two men wearing hoodies, court records showed.
They were "sneaking" around behind the store and then went to the front of the business. A short time later, the two men ran back to the Mustang and sped away, according to court documents. Monday, Greer was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser offense -- the second-degree felony of robbery -- in the Western Finance case, according to court records.
Robbery is punishable by up to 20 years in prison while aggravated robbery is a first-degree felony with the possibility of up to life in prison. Barnes also fingered Greer in the attempted armed robbery of the Cash Store in the block of Southwest Parkway that same day, court records showed.
Greer was also the driver for an attempted aggravated robbery that took place about p. Barnes had a gun in his hand when he pulled on the door of the business to open it, according to court records and officials.
