A suspect in Saturday’s armed robbery at Burger King in The Villages had already spent much of 2019 behind bars.
Travius Javon Webber, 18, was being held this weekend on a long list of charges on $260,500 bond at the Sumter County Detention Center. He was apprehended by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies Saturday afternoon after his Chrysler Sebring rammed a deputy’s patrol car at State Road 44 and Morse Boulevard in The Villages.
Webber is suspected of entering the Burger King restaurant on Wedgewood Lane at about 7:30 a.m. and ordering employees to empty the cash registers. He and an accomplice, who had covered their faces, fled with the money.
Webber had been arrested Oct. 9, 2018 on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal mischief and battery. The more serious charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed and Webber was sentenced to 120 days in jail. He was released Jan. 22. He then spent four days in the Lake County Jail on a charge of violating his probation on a charge of driving without a license. He was released Jan. 26.
Webber was arrested again Feb. 19 on a charge of driving without a license. He was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center and released nine hours later.
Earlier in 2018 when he was 17, he was charged with violating curfew. That charge was later dismissed.