C-store holdup nets 10-year sentence

Published Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A Columbia man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for robbing a Paris Road convenience store at gunpoint earlier this year.

Angenendt

Jamie Angenendt, 22, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery, admitting that on April 20 he robbed at gunpoint two clerks in the Fastlane Phillips 66 at 2116 Paris Road.

Boone County Circuit Judge Gene Hamilton sentenced Angenendt to 10 years in prison, consistent with a recommendation from Boone County Assistant Prosecutor Richard Hicks. Prosecutors dropped a charge of armed criminal action.

The two male clerks, ages 23 and 27, reported that a masked suspect entered the business, displayed a gun and demanded money. No injuries were reported.

The Columbia Police Department SWAT team arrested Angenendt on May 1 and found a small marijuana-growing operation in his Towne Drive apartment, police said. Angenendt later confessed to the robbery.

Hicks said Angenendt was found with two or three marijuana plants believed to be growing for personal use. Although he was not charged with a drug offense, Hicks said the circumstances of his arrest were taken into account during the sentencing today.

"The state took into consideration the marijuana plants he was in possession of in our unwillingness to reduce this to a second-degree robbery," Hicks said, adding that Angenendt had no prior criminal history and that he confessed to police.