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Man gets eight years for armed robbery of Aurora post office

Suspect identified by DNA on mask, gloves

DENVER, CO - MARCH 7:  Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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A man who held up an Aurora post office in November has been , followed by five years of supervision, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Colorado.

U.S. Postal Inspection Service via Twitter
Willie Dewayne Phillip

Willie Dewayne Phillip pointed a gun at two clerks and a customer at the Buckingham Plaza post office on Nov. 8. He ordered the clerks to the floor and took about $5,000 from their register before escaping on foot,.a U.S. attorney’s news release said.

Police later found a ski mask and gloves worn during the robbery, and DNA testing connected them to Phillip. He was indicted in December but eluded arrest for a month before police found him at a Denver home. Phillip barricaded himself inside, but surrendered after officers surrounded the home, the news release said.

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