MERCER COUNTY Judge sentences man in hijacking, robbery case

The woman suffered a leg injury during the crime.
MERCER, Pa. -- A Mercer man will spend up to 131/2 years in prison for hijacking a woman's car in Farrell and robbing a jewelry store at the Grove City outlets last year.
Judge Thomas Dobson of Mercer County Common Pleas Court sentenced Richard Coleman, 39, address given as the county jail, to 81 to 162 months in prison for robbery and robbery of a motor vehicle, both felonies.
Court documents state that on April 12, 2005, Coleman hid in the rear passenger area of a woman's vehicle. Once the car began moving on Walls Avenue, Farrell, he climbed over the seat and grabbed her, ordered her to get out and pushed her from the vehicle.
He continued driving though she was still hanging from the car, eventually pushing her out onto the road. The woman suffered a leg injury.
Coleman led police on a chase to Broadway Avenue, then to Pa. Routes 60 and 18 before being apprehended. He also was fined $200 for driving with a suspended license.
On March 14, 2005, Coleman brandished a revolver at two women at the Zales Jewelry Outlet in Prime Outlets, Grove City, smashed a jewelry display case with the gun and fled with six pieces of jewelry worth $11,295. He was ordered to make $13,295 restitution for the jewelry and the damaged case.
Other cases
Several others were also sentenced to prison or given probation last week.
UJames Campbell, 20, of Halfway Road, Jamestown, sentenced to one to 18 months in jail for theft by deception, a misdemeanor. He also was ordered to make restitution.* Dakota Canady, 19, of Dutch Lane, Hermitage, placed on one year of probation, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and pay restitution for a consolidated count of theft by unlawful taking, a misdemeanor.
UJudith Gill, 39, of Todd Avenue, Hermitage, placed on two year's probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and make restitution for retail theft, a felony because it was the third or subsequent offense.
UAntwuan Gunther, 21, address given as the county jail, sentenced to six to 23 months in prison for felony escape and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. The judge also placed Gunther on three year's probation, concurrent to the prison term, for felony charge of receiving stolen property. Court documents state that police arrested Gunther on Aug. 19, 2005, in possession of a stolen 1987 Chevrolet at a Lee Avenue, Farrell, address. After his arraignment in Farrell, Gunther took off running and escaped custody of Southwest Mercer County Regional Police Department. He was apprehended later in a deserted shed on Staunton Street.
UWilliam Harris, 30, of Battles Street, Niles, Ohio, was sentenced to one to three years in prison for possessing instruments of crime, conspiracy to retail theft and simple assault, all misdemeanors. He was also ordered to make restitution. * Dotti Herman, 61, of Marr Road, Pulaski, fined $250 for possessing drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor.
UTheodore Holben, 20, of Slippery Rock, sentenced to nine to 18 months in prison followed by two years' probation for six counts of unlawful restraint, and one count each of terroristic threats and firearms not to be carried without a license, all misdemeanors. Court documents state that on Nov. 28, 2005, Holben restrained six men at an East Main Street Extension, Pine Township address, threatening them with a loaded pistol if they did not come up with $2,500 he believed had been stolen.
UGeorge Long, 21, of Main Street, West Middlesex, sentenced to four to 23 months in prison for unauthorized use of an automobile, a misdemeanor. He also must make restitution.
UStacy Marchini, 46, of Hayes Avenue, McDonald, Ohio, sentenced to 86 days to 18 months in prison for misdemeanor retail theft and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service.
UEdward Myers, 28, of Cochranton, Pa., placed on 15 months' probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for recklessly endangering another person, and two years' unsupervised probation, and ordered to make restitution for criminal mischief.
UBrian Tatomirovich, 34, of Mercer-West Middlesex Road, West Middlesex, placed on two years' probation and fined $750 for recklessly endangering another person, a misdemeanor.* Jesse Wilson II, 24, of Sherman Avenue, Sharon, placed on one year's probation, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and ordered to make restitution for testing to the Pennsylvania State Police lab for possessing a controlled substance and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors.* Jessica Hancox, 24, of Ohio Street, Sharon, was placed on 18 months' probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for hindering apprehension or prosecution, a misdemeanor.
UWilliam Koehler, 26, of South Stateline Road, Sharon, sentenced to six to 18 months on house arrest, two years and three months' probation, and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for felony burglary, resisting arrest, recklessly endangering another person possessing drug paraphernalia, all misdemeanors.
Court documents state that Koehler entered the Penn-Ohio Medicine Mart, 830 S. Irvine Ave., Sharon, on July 31, 2005, with the intent to commit a crime. He and a male juvenile forced open an exterior window and once inside, tried to enter a locked pharmacy. On June 5, 2005, Koehler threw a beer can out of a vehicle on Pa. Route 18, West Middlesex, splashing beer on the driver of another vehicle. Koehler was intoxicated and fought with officers from the Southwest Regional Mercer County Police Department. Koehler also possessed a glass marijuana pipe when apprehended.