Prison sentence for pizza delivery robber

YOUNGSTOWN — A second man is sentenced to prison for his role in the armed robberies of two pizza delivery drivers in Austintown in November.

Matthew Sarra, 23, of Clifton Drive, Boardman, received a prison sentence of six years on Friday. He will be eligible for parole after serving three years and six months in prison, said J. Michael Thompson, an assistant Mahoning County prosecutor.

“It saddens me that a young man with a family who cares about him ... has to go to prison,” Judge R. Scott Krichbaum said in Mahoning County Common Pleas court during Serra’s sentencing hearing.

Judge Krichbaum noted that Serra has “virtually no criminal history” as a juvenile or adult, but said “somebody who commits an aggravated robbery is going to go to prison.”

Sarra used a knife during each of two robberies within a couple blocks of each other outside of some vacant townhouses on Woodhurst Drive. The robberies occurred Nov. 11 and Nov. 25.

Serra pleaded guilty in February to two counts of aggravated robbery, both first-degree felonies punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

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