Two teenagers convicted of armed robbery at a Fairbanks liquor store have been sentenced to five years in prison.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports 19-year-old Marcus Djaun Howard and 18-year-old Brandon Michael Roberts reached a plea arrangement with prosecutors for the March 2 robbery of the liquor store and gas station northeast of Fairbanks.
Prosecutors say the men held two clerks at gunpoint and fled with two bottles of liquor and nearly $1,300 in cash.
Police a day later stopped a car fitting the description of the get-away car and arrested them.
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Crail says Howard and Roberts confessed to the robbery and accepted responsibility for it. She says the case would have been hard to prove at trial because there was little physical evidence.
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Information from: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com
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