Geez guys look what Temar went and done,lol
This story was originally published Aug. 22, 2016.
A Lancaster teen who once made national headlines for helping track down an abducted girl will now serve at least three years in prison for robbing a city grocery store at gunpoint.
Temar S. Boggs, 18, was sentenced to 40 months to 10 years in state prison Friday.
He and an accomplice robbed the El Coqui Market on North Plum Street in December and fled with $200 to $300 in cash.
He pleaded guilty, in June in front of Judge Howard F. Knisely, who handed down the sentence.
Boggs, of the 100 block of East Lemon Street, made national headlines in 2013 when he and a friend helped locate a missing 5-year-old girl who had been taken and sexually assaulted by now-convicted rapist Harold Leroy Herr.
He was hailed for his efforts and honored on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
A college fund was set up in his name.
Boggs admitted his role in the Dec. 17 robbery at El Coqui Market in June.
Boggs pointed a black handgun at an El Coqui Market employee during the Dec. 17 robbery, going as far as to “rack” the slide on the gun, first assistant district attorney Christopher Larsen said during the June 16 guilty plea. Racking is a term used to describe the process of moving a round from the magazine to the chamber in preparation for firing the weapon.
Boggs pleaded guilty to first-degree felony charges of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
“It's a shame for Temar to go from a hero to a zero,” Boggs’ attorney, Jeffrey Conrad, said. “But the great thing is that Temar can come back from this and get back to the man that we all know he can be. That is what we are all hoping for, and we trust that he will.”
The grandmother of the 5-year-old girl Boggs helped rescue in 2013 provided a letter to Knisely requesting some leniency in sentencing of Boggs.
“I believe Temar is truly remorseful and deeply ashamed of what he has done,” the letter reads. “He knows what he did was wrong and how his actions have not only hurt the victim but also his mother and the entire community. Temar is absolutely capable of being rehabilitated if given a chance to prove himself.”
Knisely recommended that Boggs serve his sentence at the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove in Indiana County.
“Temar does have the intellect to go to college,” Conrad said. “I think Temar will go back to being a hero in our society again some day and that is our hope.”
Lamel Yelverton, 17, is also charged as an adult in the robbery. He served as a look out, according to police reports. His case is still pending, according to the district attorney's office.
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