Warren man gets 16 years in prison for school robbery

WARREN — A 22-year-old city man will be nearly 40 years old when he is eligible to leave prison for committing a robbery on a Warren school last summer.

Timothy R. Anderson of Palmyra Road received a jail sentence of 16 years Tuesday morning in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Anderson, who could have gotten up to 29 years in prison, showed no reaction as Judge Andrew Logan read the sentence.

A jury found Anderson guilty of aggravated robbery and felonious assault March 12 for walking into the Lincoln K-8 school on Atlantic Street Northeast, putting on a ski mask and using a gun to rob school employees of $11,180 in cash on June 16.

Parents were required to come to the school that day to pay for summer school with cash, parents testified during the trial.

Witnesses testified to seeing Anderson outside of the school before the robbery and talking to him about summer school and the fees involved.

One witness said he also saw Anderson running from the building just after the robbery with people chasing him. The witness said it was Anderson because the man was wearing the same clothes he saw him wearing earlier, even though the man was now wearing a ski mask.

The robbery was caught on videotape, and a man looking like Anderson — not wearing a mask — was caught on tape outside of the building minutes before the robbery.

A former school band director also testified that he was sitting in the screened-in porch of his home near the school that afternoon when he saw Anderson — not wearing a mask — run past him with a janitor chasing him.