GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - A Gulfport antheral was sentenced to 20 years earlier this week aft pleading blameworthy to the equipped robbery of a Dollar General connected Pass Road successful 2020.
District Attorney W. Crosby Parker announced Thursday that 24-year-old Aundra Cain of Gulfport was sentenced to 20 years astatine the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Judge Bourgeois besides ordered that Cain’s 20 twelvemonth condemnation tally consecutive to a 15 twelvemonth condemnation Cain was already serving.
The transgression happened connected September 5, 2020 astir 8:20 p.m. erstwhile a Dollar General clerk called Gulfport Police reporting she had been robbed astatine the store, according to tribunal documents. She said a masked gunman came up to her successful an aisle, pulled retired a metallic handgun and demanded she unfastened the store’s safe.
She didn’t person entree to the safe, truthful the gunman demanded that she bare the register. The brace went implicit to the register, wherever the clerk enactment wealth and a tracking instrumentality wrong a integrative container and gave it to Cain, who past fled the store.
The tracking institution past contacted Gulfport Police and provided the determination of its tracking device. Using those locations, Gulfport Police, on with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department, recovered a fishy conveyance connected Dedeaux Road.
An serviceman tried to behaviour a postulation halt connected the vehicle, but Cain fled and was aboriginal recovered hiding successful a carport astatine a location connected Dedeaux Road.
“Subsequent to his arrest, the constabulary located the money, a Dollar General receipt and the tracking instrumentality wrong a integrative container successful the beforehand of the Defendant’s pants,” said Assistant DA Matthew D. Burrell, who prosecuted the case. “Police besides located a metallic handgun and a sweatshirt wrong the Defendant’s car accordant with what the clerk described and what was seen connected video surveillance wrong the store.”
“We commend the clerk for her speedy reasoning successful placing the tracking instrumentality successful the wealth fixed to the Defendant,” DA Parker said. “We besides commend the Gulfport Police Department and the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department successful moving unneurotic to find the Defendant and apprehended an equipped and unsafe criminal.”
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