30 months in prison for Subway armed robbery
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This article was published 12/02/2015 (4069 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A robber who pointed a gun at the face of a pregnant Subway restaurant clerk and stole money to feed his crack habit has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
The gun was thrown away and never recovered, so the Crown can’t prove whether it was real or a pellet gun as the robber would later claim.
That wouldn’t make a difference to the restaurant clerk who didn’t know the difference, Crown attorney Jim Ross said.
“It’s terrifying to have a gun pointed at you and to spend every second alertly watching and waiting to hear a report that could end your life,” Ross said during the robber’s recent sentencing.
Jordan Lee Thomas, 31, pleaded guilty to robbery with a weapon or imitation for the crime he committed on Jan. 3.
Ross said Thomas was wearing a tuque and a bandana over his face. He also wore dark sunglasses to hide his face.
Around 10:50 p.m., he waited until three customers left the Corral Centre Subway and then entered and pointed a gun at the clerk behind the counter and told her: “Give me all the money.”
The 29-year-old clerk, who was seven months pregnant, was working alone. She gave Thomas $375 from the till and he left, walking east.
Twenty minutes later, police arrested him at gunpoint in the Sportsplex parking lot. The stolen money was found nearby, hidden near a dumpster.
He confessed, and told police he’d robbed the restaurant with a pellet gun to get money to support his crack cocaine addiction.
He had tossed the gun away in a field, and tried to help police find it, but it was never found. As a result, Ross said he couldn’t prove that the gun was a real one, rather than a pellet gun as Thomas said.
Ross noted that 2012 statistics, the most recent figures available, showed that the robbery rate in Manitoba is nearly double that of the national average.
Thomas’ lawyer, Jonathan Richert, said his client was on social assistance.
Thomas had stated that he has been a crack cocaine addict for six years, but Richert said he believes Thomas has had a substance abuse problem for longer.
He has numerous prior convictions for theft, but this is his first violent offence.
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