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Temar Boggs

(Lancaster County district attorney's office)

A Lancaster man once lauded as a hero for helping authorities in an abduction case will now spend at least 40 months in prison for an armed robbery late last year.

Temar Savon Boggs was recently sentenced to state prison for the Dec. 17 armed robbery of El Coqui Market in Lancaster. Boggs could spend up to 10 years in prison for the robbery, from which he and his accomplice Lamel Yelverton, 16, stole $200.

The case for Yelverton, who police said served as a lookout while Boggs robbed the store, is still pending. Boggs pleaded guilty to the crime in June.

Judge Howard Knisely ordered a standard range sentence, ignoring requests from Boggs' attorney, Jeff Conrad, asking for a mitigating sentence. Conrad said Boggs was drawn to the wrong crowd after gaining notoriety from assisting police in a 2013 kidnapping in Lancaster Township, according to a news release from the Lancaster County district attorney's office.

First Assistant District Attorney Christopher Larsen argued that Boggs chose to rob the store in spite of a strong support system of relatives. He added that during the robbery, Boggs racked the slide of the gun he was carrying as an overt threat to the store clerk.