Jason Holmes got picked up a day after an armed home-invasion robbery in Lincoln on Oct. 30, 2013, and ended up facing a string of charges.
On Oct. 29 of this year, out of jail on bond, he got picked up again.
This time, police say he had a hand in another armed home-invasion robbery that ended with a gunshot and a dead 21-year-old.
Maurice Williams died shortly after he was shot in his home at Lionsgate Apartments on Aug. 30, after two men had burst through the door.
On Monday, the Lancaster County Attorney's Office charged Holmes with being an accessory to murder and conspiracy to commit robbery.
Prosecutors have charged Joshua Nootenboom-Carr and Derick Lewis with first-degree murder, attempted robbery and gun charges in Williams' death.Â
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Police suspect Holmes of organizing the robbery and waiting outside in the getaway car. He is in jail on a $500,000 bond.
On Thursday, he was in court for sentencing on the older charges.
Defense attorney Steffanie Kotik said Holmes had been trying to distance himself from his associates and the drugs and alcohol that got him in trouble the first time before his arrest late last month.
"This was his wake-up call," she said.
Before last year, she said, Holmes had no adult felony charges.
But his October 2013 arrest led to a string of charges for trying to fence a stolen laptop in December 2012; selling an undercover cop marijuana and fake pills in September; and planning a robbery at a mobile home near 27th Street and Cornhusker Highway.
When the thieves in the October 2013 robbery got nabbed by police, they fingered Holmes as the man with the plan.
"I just want to say I'm accountable for all of my actions," Holmes told Lancaster County District Judge John Colborn in court Thursday. "I understand what I did was wrong."
He pleaded guilty to delivery of marijuana, terroristic threats and aiding and abetting theft by receiving stolen property.
Colborn sentenced him to 3½ to seven years in prison on the older charges.