Man found guilty in robbery at school

STAFF report

WARREN — A jury deliberated two hours Thursday before finding Timothy R. Anderson guilty of aggravated robbery and felonious assault for robbing a Warren schools employee at gunpoint last June of $11,180 in cash.

Anderson, 22, of Palmyra Road, could get up to 29 years in prison when Judge Andrew Logan sentences him at 8:30 a.m. March 24.

Anderson took the stand Thursday as the only witness for the defense, contending the robbery was committed by another person.

On Tuesday, however, witnesses placed him at the Lincoln K-8 school on Atlantic Street minutes before the robbery and said they were certain that it was Anderson who fled out the front door wearing a mask after the robbery.

One witness said the man running from the building appeared to be Anderson because he was wearing the same clothing as when he talked to him just before the robbery.

School surveillance cameras captured a person looking like Anderson standing in front of the school just before the robbery. Another camera showed a man wearing a ski mask walk into a room in the school and take the cash.

The money was payment for summer school classes.

A former school band director testified he was sitting in the screened-in porch of his home near the school that afternoon when he saw Anderson run past him with a janitor chasing him.