Judge gives robber additional six years

Tisdale also robbed a National City Bank branch twice.
By ED RUNYAN
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- A 33-year-old Youngstown man sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday for nine robberies at stores in Mahoning County received an additional six years in prison for 12 other robberies in Liberty, Girard, Hubbard, Niles and Warren that occurred about the same time.
Shane Tisdale, of Roslyn Drive, pleaded guilty to 22 charges Thursday before Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. He sentenced Tisdale to 18 years in prison to run at the same time as his Mahoning County sentence.
Chris Becker, assistant county prosecutor, said Tisdale admitted all of the Trumbull robberies while being interviewed by police in Mahoning. Tisdale likewise admitted to all of the Mahoning robberies, said Martin P. Desmond, an assistant Mahoning County prosecutor.
Youngstown police arrested Tisdale in a traffic stop and found evidence linking him to a robbery at the Tic Toc Food Mart in Coitsville on Nov. 23, Desmond said, adding that Tisdale claimed the robberies were done to support his drug addiction.
The Mahoning robberies took place between Sept. 11 and Nov. 23, AND the Trumbull County heists were from Aug. 13 through Nov. 22.
What he did
The Trumbull robberies began with a theft of 104 from Dollar General on South Street in Warren and were followed by armed robberies at the Dollar General on West Market Street in Warren; Perkins Restaurant, Fashion Bug, Quality Inn, Chase Bank and Subway Restaurant on Belmont Avenue, Liberty; Dollar General Store on Church Hill Road, Girard; Wings Express on West Liberty Street, Hubbard; McQuaid's gas station on State Street, Girard; and two robberies at National City Bank on Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles.
In most of the robberies, Tisdale displayed a handgun and either entered the business, ordered employees to re-enter the business at closing time or hand over the receipts after leaving the business, according to police reports.
In several cases, Tisdale wore a mask or tied up the victims before leaving. In several cases, he also took the victim's vehicle when he left.
Though he threatened many of the victims, Tisdale injured only one of them. At the Subway in Liberty, he used pepper spray on two employees before leaving with cash from the register. A Liberty police report said one of the two was wearing glasses, which protected him from the spray.
Tisdale pleaded guilty to 11 counts of aggravated robbery, 10 counts of kidnapping and one count of robbery. He could have received 65 to 218 years in prison on the Trumbull crimes.
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