Man sentenced for gas station robbery
A Taylor man was sentenced to six to 23 months in Lackawanna County Prison on Wednesday for his role in the Nov. 24 robbery of a Scranton Citgo gas station.
Judge Vito Geroulo admonished Andrew Stratz, 25, for his involvement in the robbery where he and his partner, Thomas Krostag, 20, stole cigarettes from the Railroad Avenue store after pinning the clerk against the cigarette rack.
Mr. Stratz pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of theft by unlawful taking.
Judge Geroulo asked if Mr. Stratz had a younger sister, to which he ansered yes. He has several.
"Suppose they are working at the convenience store and a guy bigger and older than them pushes them up against the counter," Judge Geroulo asked. "How terrified do you think she is?"
A Scranton man and a friend of Mr. Krostag was also sentenced Wednesday for a burglary that occurred later that month.
Douglas Davey, 59, of Scranton, was sentenced to an aggregate of nine months to nearly two years incarceration after he pleaded guilty to theft by unlawful taking for a burglary in Dunmore, where he, Mr. Krostag and Dunmore resident Christopher Sacco broke into a house on Jackson Street in Scranton and stole two laptops, an Xbox and various video games, later exchanging those goods for heroin.
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