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Youngstown man gets prison in beating, delivery man robbery
YOUNGSTOWN
Jermaine Moore beat a man for his shoes and pointed a gun at a pizza-delivery man during a robbery. And for those crimes, he will spend the next seven years behind bars.
Moore, 21, of Philadelphia Avenue, appeared Tuesday before Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for sentencing on a felonious assault charge in one case as well as aggravated robbery and carrying-concealed-weapons charges in another case.
Rob Andrews, an assistant county prosecutor, recommended Moore serve time in prison for the crimes, but did not recommend a specific amount of time.
Moore was sentenced to three years in prison on the felonious assault, four years in prison on the aggravated robbery and 18 months in prison on the carrying-a- concealed-weapon charge. All the sentences will be served concurrently, but consecutively to a mandatory three-year gun specification.
Police say a 26-year-old pizza-delivery driver was making a delivery to an East Lucius Avenue address on the South Side at 11:40 p.m. April 8 when he was met at the porch by a teenage boy asking if he could change a $100 bill to complete the transaction.
The driver told the boy he could not make that transaction and began to leave, but another man, believed to be Moore, came from the side of the house pulled out a handgun and ordered the driver to the ground.
The armed thief took the driver’s wallet, cash and cellphone.
The pizza-delivery man was in the courtroom for the sentencing, but chose not to make a victim’s impact statement.
The felonious assault charge stems from a separate incident where Moore is believed to be part of a group that beat a man on Winona Avenue on the South Side in 2010, taking his shoes in the process. A robbery charge was dropped.
Atty. Thomas Zena, representing Moore, told the court his client understands he committed two serious crimes in a short period of time and must pay a debt to society. He said Moore has taken advantage of all self-help programs while in the county jail.
Moore apologized for his actions.
“I am sorry about what happened. I would like to take full responsibility. Maybe this trip up the road will make me a better man,” he said.
If given the maximum sentences for the crimes, Moore could have been sentenced to 221/2 years behind bars.