Man sentenced for Fort Fairfield robbery

BANGOR – A Woodland man who robbed the Irving Mainway convenience store in Fort Fairfield at gunpoint was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court to 91/2 years in prison and three years probation.

Timothy Frost, 19, of Woodland and Richard Allen Clements, 24, of Caribou entered the store shortly after 5 a.m. April 18, 2002, armed with a handgun. According to court documents, they locked the clerk in a back room before fleeing with cash and cigarettes.

The weapon used in the robbery was stolen from a private residence in Caribou during another robbery. Local police received a tip from an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer about two suspicious men he had observed in the store.

Frost and Clements, also known as Richard Stahursky-Clement, were apprehended a short time later on Frost Road by two Caribou police officers who heard the radio report from Fort Fairfield police.

Clements was sentenced to 191/2 years in prison and three years probation in October for his part in the robbery. He also was ordered to pay $909 restitution to the Mainway store.

Both men pleaded guilty to the federal charges that resulted from the armed robbery of a store engaged in interstate commerce.

Also sentenced Monday was a New Bedford, Mass., man, who received nearly six years in prison and three years probation for counterfeiting.

Robert Pike, 34, was arrested two years ago in Bangor after he passed phony money at a Bangor convenience store. Bangor police seized papermaking equipment and pages of $50 bills in preparation and more than $3,000 in counterfeit bills at the Griffin Road home where Pike was staying.

Other sentences handed down this week by U.S. District Court Judge George Z. Singal included:

. Baron Thompson, 26, Augusta, 21 months and three years probation for importing or manufacturing firearms and making a false statement in acquisition of a firearm.

. William Fay, 30, Bangor, 30 months and three years probation for possession of a firearm by a felon.

. John Tyler, 55, of Weeks Mills, 12 months and two days and three years probation for unlawful acts related to controlled substance records.

. Jorge Aguilar-Ceron, 41, Caribou, eight months and three years probation for fraud and misuse of visas or permits;

. Katrina Boyce, 39, Deer Isle, three years, two weeks, and a $1,000 fine for embezzlement.

. William Chester Szczesny, 50, Plymouth, three years probation for making false statements on a firearms application.

. Joel Edwin Williams, 30, Gardiner, three years probation for possession of a firearm by a person convicted of domestic violence.