MAHONING COUNTY 2 plead guilty to robbery at restaurant

Sentencing for the two men is set for July 31.
By DAVID SKOLNICk
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
YOUNGSTOWN -- Two men who robbed four Antone's Restaurant employees at gunpoint are expected to be sentenced to seven years in prison next month.
Amory L. Dorsey, 21, of Hillman Avenue in Youngstown, and Jeffrey R. Jones, 21, of Albright-McKay Road Northeast in Brookfield, pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of kidnapping, a count each of aggravated robbery and safecracking with gun specifications on each charge.
Their trials were scheduled for Monday, but the attorneys for the two made a deal with the Mahoning County Prosecutor's Office thus avoiding the trial.
The deal calls for the prosecutor's office to recommend prison sentences of seven years each; four years for the felonies and a mandatory three-year sentence for the use of a gun. Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of common pleas court said plea agreements are typically honored by judges, but he has the final decision on the prison sentence.
The two could each face up to 541/2 years in a state penitentiary, the judge said.
Dorsey and Jones are to be sentenced at 10:30 a.m. July 31 by Judge Krichbaum. They will remain in the Mahoning County Jail until then.
About the robbery
Police said the two men robbed Antone's on Mahoning Avenue in Austintown in January and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Two restaurant employees told police they noticed the men hiding behind a transformer in the restaurant's rear parking lot. When the restaurant manager and another worker went with the two employees to investigate, Dorsey and Jones stood up and pointed handguns at the four, police said.
Dorsey and Jones took the restaurant's night deposit bag, money from the cash registers and the safe, police said. No one was injured and no shots were fired during the holdup.
About a week after the robbery, Dorsey was arrested at a West Princeton Avenue home in Youngstown and Jones was apprehended at a bus station in Louisville, Ky., on his way to New Orleans.
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