Man sentenced in robbery case

YOUNGSTOWN — An 18-year-old Meghan Circle man is sentenced to eight years in prison for the Jan. 16, 2007, armed robbery at Family Discount Drugs on Canfield Road in Cornersburg.

Airik Talbott pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery with a firearm specification in October before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Judge Krichbaum sentenced Talbott on Tuesday.

Talbott was 17 when he and Jeffrey D. Caulton, 18, of Norwood Avenue, entered the drugstore with guns, ordered everyone in the store to the floor and held a gun to the face of a clerk, said J. Michael Thompson, an assistant county prosecutor.

The pair stole $350 in cash and 1,600 OxyContin pills and other narcotics, police said. Later that evening, police arrested Talbott and Caulton at a house on Eddie Street, where they were told that the men had been flushing the pills down two toilets.

Police reported that bottles recovered at the house matched the serial numbers of the bottles taken from the pharmacy.

Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Common Pleas Court sentenced Caulton in July to nine years in prison for the robbery and other crimes.