NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A jury convicted a man on Wednesday, March 12, of robbery using a firearm, conspiring to commit robbery and resisting arrest after he enlisted the help of a woman to commit a bank robbery in 2023 and fought with the officer who was arresting him, breaking the officer’s wrist.

The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Norfolk said in a release that on Dec. 11, 2023, an unidentified woman entered a credit union on Granby Street in the Wards Corner area and passed a teller a note. This note said, “You have one minute to put all the loose money in the bag or you will get shot.”

The teller alerted Norfolk Police to the incident by activating a silent alarm. She then put $2,000 cash and a false bundle of cash containing a GPS tracking device in a bank bag. The woman then left with the bag of money.

Surveillance video from the credit union showed that the unidentified woman was wearing a black wig, a detail which the teller also testified to in court.

Tracking the GPS device, police traced the stolen cash to a gas station further north on Granby Street. When officers arrived there, they found Anton Demetrius Williams Jr., 23, leaving a vehicle that was parked in the near-empty lot. Williams then ran away.

In the vehicle was a receipt dated earlier that day for a wig from a beauty supply store.

Continuing to track the GPS device, officers saw that the cash was still moving with Williams.

Officers ran after and detained Williams. They found an empty bank bag on the ground nearby as well as a different bag containing the stolen cash and tracking device. Surveillance footage from the site of the arrest showed Williams partially burying the bank bag before the officers took him into custody.

Williams also physically resisted arrest and broke an officer’s wrist in the process.

According to the Norfolk Circuit Court website, Williams is scheduled to have a Pre-Sentence Report hearing on May 23, 2025.