Two sentenced for separate robberies

June 4, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Judge Shirley J. Christian of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced two people to prison terms for their roles in separate robberies.

Daisy Robinson, 19, of Canfield, received a three-year prison sentence Wednesday on a charge of aggravated robbery for her role as one of six people involved in the Oct. 14 robbery of a drug dealer at a Compass West apartment complex in Austintown.

Assistant Prosecutor Mary Beth DiGravio said Robinson went to the man’s apartment and knocked on the door to get him to open it. Once the man opened it, another man rushed in, knocked the man to the ground and began hitting him with a gun while the others fanned out across his apartment looking for money and marijuana.

DiGravio said Robinson confessed to her role in the crime, then tried to take back her confession before she was sentenced.

Of the other defendants, two were sentenced to probation last week; one was convicted in a trial earlier this year of burglary; another has an upcoming trial; and the last person has been missing since indictments were handed up in the case, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest, DiGravio said.

Also sentenced was Kevin Stoffer, 18, of Kendis Circle, for his role in the robbery of a man Feb. 12 on the North Side of $20 and a cellphone on Belmont Avenue after he refused an offer to buy heroin, reports said.

He pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of robbery.

DiGravio and Stoffer’s attorney, David Betras, worked out a plea agreement where Stoffer would be sentenced to 18 months in prison but be eligible for judicial release after 30 days.

Betras asked Judge Christian to honor the recommended sentence, saying Stoffer has no prior record and that he has strong family support. His mother and other family members were in the courtroom Wednesday.

Stoffer has already served 111 days in the county jail since his arrest.

“I know it was stupid, and it will never happen again,” Stoffer told the judge.

When Judge Christian asked Stoffer what was stupid, he replied “everything.”

The judge said that was a good answer. She also placed Stoffer on parole whenever he is released from prison.