Man sentenced to 6 years for robbery

YOUNGSTOWN — A 20-year-old Upland Avenue man is going to prison for six years after he pleaded guilty as charged to the aggravated robbery of a Boardman woman and felonious assault against her husband with firearm specifications.

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence Wednesday on Terrian L. Christian in the March 21 incident at Market Street and Judson Avenue on the city’s South Side.

The sentence is nonappealable because it was agreed to by the prosecution and the defense and adopted by the judge.

Christian grabbed the woman’s purse after threatening to shoot her as she left a Market Street thrift store, the woman told police. Christian then shot at and missed her husband, who was chasing him after the robbery, police reports said.

After a witness reported the robber’s whereabouts, Boardman and Youngstown police apprehended Christian within minutes after the robbery as he tried to crawl out a basement window of a vacant nearby house.

Police recovered the woman’s purse and all its contents in a nearby garage and returned it to her within 30 minutes, said J. Michael Thompson, assistant county prosecutor.

There were no injuries.