Court briefs
May 6, 2007 Man sentenced to prison
A Vanderbilt man was sentenced to serve 1 1/2 to three years in a state prison plus four years of probation for robbing a local grocery store and a fruit stand.
Fayette County Judge Steve P. Leskinen imposed the sentence Thursday against Seth Annis, 21, of 340 Flatwoods Road. Annis and his girlfriend, Lindsey Renea Weimer, 21, of the same address, were charged with robbing Pletcher’s Farm Market in Champion and Golden Apple Produce in Bullskin Township, both on Aug. 30.
The couple also was charged with trying to rob the post office in Tarrs, Westmoreland County, the same day.
Police charged that Annis asked a postal worker about the rental cost of a post office box and then asked her, “How about giving me the money out of the cash register?”
When the clerk refused and retreated to her office, Annis and Weimer fled in a white van, police alleged.
It was a short time later that the couple allegedly went to the Bullskin Township fruit market. Police alleged that Weimer, wielding a crowbar, told the clerk to hand over money or she would be killed.
After the woman did, police alleged that Weimer chased her, telling her not to call police.
Police caught the couple later in the day in Dunbar Township.
ARD approved
A Penn Township woman was ordered to repay unauthorized overtime she racked up while working as an administrator at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette in Luzerne Township.
Magdalene Hurst, 50, will participate in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program in Fayette County Court. As part of the restitution in the case, Hurst was ordered to repay $6,000 taken from the state between September 2004 and August 2005.
Hurst billed 214 extra hours of overtime.
If Hurst completes the program, her record will be expunged.
Judge Gerald R. Solomon admitted her for six months for counts of theft, receiving stolen property, unauthorized use of a computer and tampering with public records.
Admission into the ARD program does not require an admission of guilt and is a program for
first-time, non-violent offenders.