Robber sentenced to five years

In other court news, an eighteen year old was today found guilty of three counts of Robbery and sentenced to five years for each count. Edwin Bardalez, however, will only be behind bars for five years as Magistrate Dorothy Flowers has ordered that the sentences run concurrently. The incident in question goes back to July sixth 2007 when two men, one of them wearing a mask and the other armed with a pistol entered the Safeway Drugstore on Central American Boulevard, forced two employees to the floor, and robbed them. The duo got away with a cell phone, earrings, a wristwatch, and two hundred dollars in cash from employees Tricia Moguel and Shareth Reyes. Two customers, who made an untimely entrance at the drugstore while the robbery was in progress, were also robbed. During trial Bardalez maintained his innocence, claiming that at the time of the robbery he was at the police station, but the police established that he was not in their custody until much later in the night after the robbery had occurred.