Man sentenced to 8 years for robbery

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A 19-year-old has been sentenced to eight years in prison for robbing a pizza-delivery man at gunpoint Jan. 3 on the city’s West Side.

Fabian Bellard, who listed addresses on Eastway Drive and Kendis Circle, drew the sentence Thursday from Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Bellard earlier had pleaded guilty as charged to aggravated robbery with a firearm specification, carrying a concealed weapon when he was arrested Jan. 12, and two counts of being a convicted felon in illegal possession of a gun, pertaining to Jan. 3 and Jan. 12.

Bellard was disqualified from gun possession by a February 2009 robbery adjudication in juvenile court, according to the indictment.

After a pizza was ordered by telephone, Bellard robbed the 51-year-old of the pizza and $5 when he delivered it to a Steel Street apartment, according to Martin P. Desmond, an assistant county prosecutor. The victim was not physically hurt, Desmond said.

The robber, who confronted the delivery man at 7 p.m. on the front porch and demanded the pizza and his wallet, fired one shot in the air and threatened to shoot the pizza-delivery driver