Warner Robins teen sentenced as adult in armed robbery case

WARNER ROBINS — Kemonte Jorquez Jordan, 17, of Warner Robins has been charged as an adult with armed robbery and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony by pleading guilty on Jan. 5.  He was sentenced to ten years in prison without the possibility of parole. 

According to a media release, the crime took place at The Mystery Shop on Green Street on Sept. 17, 2024, when Jordan was 16. The release said the overnight clerk was robbed at gunpoint and Jordan demanded $100 from them. 

“When the clerk initially refused to comply with Jordan’s demands, Jordan informed him that he had a gun and ultimately brandished and pointed a firearm at the victim,” the release said. “The victim gave Jordan $40 from the cash register, and Jordan fled the store.”

Officers of the Warner Robins Police Department obtained surveillance footage of Jordan entering and robbing the store.

“Once identified from the surveillance footage, Jordan was arrested, and during an interview with Detective Karmen Thompson, he confessed to the robbery, saying that he needed the money to get his cell phone fixed,” the release said. 

Even though Jordan was a juvenile at the time of the arrest, he has been charged as an adult under Georgia law by entering a guilty plea in the Houston County Superior Court. Jordan was prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Sandra Matson. 

Houston County District Attorney Eric Edwards provided comments on the conviction: 

“An armed robbery is a violent crime, regardless of the age of the person who commits it,” he said. “Pointing a firearm at a store clerk in the middle of the night puts an innocent person’s life at real and immediate risk, and our community cannot tolerate that kind of violence.”