A 28-year-old man

demanded Popsicles and alcohol and held them at gunpoint was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday.

Darwin Leroy Stauffer had stolen a car and was spotted speeding by police last January. He ditched the car, ran into the woods and emerged on the porch of a home near the Springwater Corridor Trail and Powell Butte.

He knocked on the door and asked to use a phone, but then saw a police car driving by. He forced his way in and held three housemates inside at gunpoint. They eventually wrestled the gun away from Stauffer. During the struggle, the gun fired, but no one was struck.

The housemates escaped, and Portland police surrounded the house for five hours before firing tear gas inside and forcing Stauffer out.

Stauffer pleaded guilty in Multnomah County Circuit Court to first-degree burglary, kidnapping and robbery and no contest to unlawful use of a vehicle.

-- Aimee Green