An Illinois man was sentenced to three years Friday after a plea deal for a Hobart gas station robbery.
Marlon Triplett, 34, formerly of Chicago, admitted to Level 5 felony robbery. He faced one to six years.
He and co-defendant Sedgwick Reavers were implicated in a string of stickups across the Chicagoland area. His client was “going through a dark time” that included alcohol and drug abuse. Marrie asked for “leniency.”Triplett said he had just lost a seasonal job, drank, used drugs and made “bad decisions.”It “saved my life,” he said. “I want to get back to my kids. I just want a chance to start over.”“But that’s what you did,” Judge Salvador Vasquez told him.
They took more than $2,000 in lottery tickets and more than $2,000 in Newport cigarettes, charges state.
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