OAKLAND — An Oakland man was charged in federal court Monday with robbing a donut shop and firing a shot that whizzed past the clerk.
The defendant, Keenami Maggard, 40, had been wanted in connection with the robbery for more than two years, but wasn’t arrested until last January when he was robbed and shot, then transported to Highland Hospital, according to the FBI.
Maggard was charged Monday with interference with interstate commerce by robbery, a federal offense that carries a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The charging records accuse him of holding up Quality Donuts at 6860 Sunset Drive. The robbery occurred in September 2017 and the robber made off with $150, according to the complaint.
“Do you want the donut or not?” the cashier asked Maggard, as he stood in front of the cash register, according to the criminal complaint.
“No, I want money,” he allegedly replied, pulling out a pistol and firing one shot, which passed by the clerk’s left side. She handed over the $150, and ran out of the store.
Police reviewed surveillance footage, and identified Maggard as the robber. But the case ran into a hiccup: when three eyewitnesses were shown photo lineups containing Maggard, only one — a customer — positively identified him as the robber. Still, police obtained an arrest warrant for Maggard in October 2017, the complaint says.
That’s where the case stayed until last Jan. 28, when Maggard was shot during a robbery in Oakland, and transported to Highland Hospital. Police interviewed him there, and told them they wanted his help on another shooting from 2017, where he was believed to be present.
Instead of showing him footage of the robbery, they showed him a still from earlier footage of the robber walking up to the store. Maggard positively identified himself, according to the criminal complaint.
But when officers accused him of being the robber, Maggard denied it. He insisted he was incarcerated in Nevada at the time, but authorities there told investigators that he wasn’t, the complaint says.
Maggard is in federal custody at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and has a court date set for Friday, according to county records.
