Man gets 8-year prison term

STAFF REPORT

YOUNGSTOWN — Larry T. Burgess, 19, of Pinehurst Avenue is going to prison for a robbery in which he got no money.

Judge Timothy E. Franken of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Burgess on Friday to eight years in prison for trying to rob a couple at gunpoint last winter in front of their house.

He pleaded guilty to two aggravated robbery charges Monday.

The couple was walking up to their house in the 100 block of Lowell Avenue on the city’s South Side the evening of Dec. 22 when Burgess got out of a vehicle in the couple’s driveway and demanded money while pointing a gun at them.

The male victim threw a cast-iron horse head at Burgess and then tried to hit him with a shovel before Burgess fled in his vehicle. He got no money.

Police caught up to the vehicle a short time later and arrested Burgess on West Princeton Avenue after a foot chase. The vehicle Burgess was driving had been stolen in Kent, police said.