Bangor man receives 8 years 21-year-old stole gun, robbed store

BANGOR – A man who pleaded guilty to an armed robbery of the Eastside convenience store in Bangor and other charges was sentenced Tuesday in Penobscot County Superior Court to 15 years in prison with all but eight years suspended, and six years of probation.

Roger Tenney, 21, of Bangor also was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing the gun he used in the September holdup. In addition, he was sentenced to five years for the aggravated assault of a Bangor man in an Odlin Road motel parking lot five days before the robbery.

The sentences will be served concurrently.

Tenney and Marcus Shorey, 19, also of Bangor, repeatedly hit Andy Soucy, 22, of Bangor with baseball bats in the Econo Lodge parking the night of Sept. 15. The two then got into the car of the woman with whom they’d ridden to the motel from a Bangor apartment and struck a man who said he tried to break up the fight.

Shorey was convicted last month in a jury trial of elevated aggravated assault for deliberately hitting Alan McCann, 23, of Bangor with the vehicle. Tenney, who testified for the defense at Shorey’s trial last month, pleaded guilty to striking Soucy with a baseball bat. The jury found Shorey not guilty of aggravated assault in the incident. He remains in Penobscot County Jail awaiting sentencing.

A few days after the assault, Tenney stole a gun from a First Street home and used it on Sept. 20 to rob the convenience store at the intersection of Grove and Garland streets, taking cash and food stamps. He was arrested early the next morning when he tried to cash food stamps at the 7-Eleven convenience store on the corner of Broadway and State Street.