A Pennsylvania teen who gained national attention in 2013 for helping to save a 5-year-old girl from a kidnapper will serve up to 10 years in prison after robbing a store, authorities said.
Temar Boggs, 18, was sentenced Friday to serve 40 months to 10 years in state prison, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Temar Boggs, 18, will serve up to 10 years in prison.
Boggs with the help of a 16-year-old accomplice held up a Lancaster store, the El Coqui Market, in December, the slide of the gun and threatening the store clerk, authorities said.
Boggs and his attorney argued in court that he was drawn to the wrong crowd of friends following his heroic efforts in 2013, the DA’s office said.
But authorities countered that claim in court, saying Boggs has a solid support system of relatives — but chose to rob the store anyway.
The teens fled with about $200 in cash.
Boggs pleaded guilty in June, court records show.
Years earlier, Boggs and a handful of teens helped to rescue Jocelyn Rojas , 5, who was snatched from her grandmother’s front yard by a white-haired man driving a maroon car.
The heroes took off on their bikes, located the man’s car with the girl inside, and later brought the girl to police after the man pushed her out of the car.
At the time, Boggs did not consider himself a hero.
“I’m just a normal person who did a thing that anybody else would do,” he told Lancaster Online.
The girl’s kidnapper Harold Leroy Herr pleaded guilty to the attack and was sentenced to 50 to 100 years behind bars.
Source: newbpress.info
