A 21-year-old man convicted of threatening a Lincoln gas station clerk with a handgun while stealing a bottle of vodka was sent to prison Thursday.
Lancaster County District Judge Stephanie Stacy gave Tyler O. Robertson a year and three months to three years for making terroristic threats.
On Jan. 19, Robertson tried to leave the Kwik Shop near 47th and Calvert streets with the bottle in his pants. A clerk confronted him but backed off after Robertson showed him the butt of a gun.
Police tracked Robertson to the 4500 block of Prescott Avenue and eventually arrested him several hours later in possession of a pistol-like BB gun.Â
Prosecutors charged him with robbery, but the charge was reduced to terroristic threats in a plea deal. He'll get 61 days credit for time in jail and will have to serve an additional one to two years for an earlier shoplifting conviction.