Man sentenced for store robbery
SCRANTON - Lackawanna County Judge Michael J. Barrasse sentenced a city man to 16 to 60 months in state prison on Tuesday for robbing a Joe's Kwik Mart clerk in March.
According to city police, Morgan Montieth, 28, pulled a plastic toy revolver on a clerk and stole cash out of the register.
Police found the toy gun near the North Keyser Avenue store and a black knit hat with eyehole cutouts, which Mr. Montieth was suspected of wearing during the robbery.
He pleaded guilty in August to one count of felony robbery.