Jury Convicts Man Who Robbed a Newport News Delivery Driver of His Food, Shoes and Car
Jayveon McCloud and a co-defendant made the driver remove his shoes at gunpoint on Oct. 22, 2025. McCloud crashed the stolen car during a police chase.
A federal jury has convicted a Richmond-area man of robbing a food delivery driver at gunpoint in Newport News, Virginia, and driving off in his car. The robbers also took the food he was delivering and the shoes off his feet.
The jury found Jayveon Christopher McCloud guilty on Oct. 22, 2026, of conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce, robbery affecting interstate commerce, carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said. He faces a mandatory minimum of seven years and up to life in prison when he is sentenced on Jan. 20, 2027.
According to evidence at trial, McCloud and Takaree Alexander Fields, 22, of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, wore masks and carried handguns when they approached the driver on Oct. 22, 2025. They pointed their guns at him and ordered him to drop everything, empty his pockets and take off his shoes. They took the food, his shoes, his money and his car key fob. McCloud drove off in the victim’s car. Fields left in a car he had stolen from his mother, prosecutors said.
Two chases, two crashes
After the driver reported the robbery, Newport News police spotted his car and tried to pull it over. McCloud fled, crashed the car and was caught after a short foot chase. Fields got away that night. The next day, Henrico County police found him. He sped off, crashed in a convenience store parking lot and ran toward a wooded area before officers caught him, according to the office.
One plea, one trial
The court docket shows a grand jury indicted both men on May 11, 2026, in case No. 4:26-cr-00034. The trial date was moved at least twice before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth W. Hanes set a four-day trial to start on Oct. 20, 2026.
Fields did not go to trial. On Oct. 5, 2026, he pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Robert J. Krask to two counts, robbery affecting interstate commerce and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, under a plea agreement. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 7, 2027, and also faces a mandatory minimum of seven years and up to life, prosecutors said.
The seven-year floor comes from the gun charge. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence carries a prison term of “not less than 7 years.” The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Newport News police investigated the case.
