Committing four robberies in a single day has led to a jail term for a Prince George man.
Lawrence Matthew Letnes, 24, was sentenced to one year and nine months in jail and issued a 10-year firearms prohibition in Prince George provincial court on Friday.
The time is for a string of Sept. 14, 2010 incidents that began with the Queensway 7-11 at 3:30 a.m., followed by the Central Street Mohawk at 5:40 a.m., the 20th Avenue 7-11 at 6:30 a.m. and the Fifth Avenue Liquor Store at 10:15 p.m.
Letnes used a tire iron in the first and second and a knife in the third and fourth incidents to threaten employees in three of the four robberies in which he made off small amounts of cash, police said at the time
Letnes was apprehended shortly after the liquor store robbery but would have been caught sooner if the store's "rat trap," which instantly locks two entrance and an exit door, trapping the offender in a barred foyer area, had not malfunctioned.
However, the trap's solenoid had unknowingly been bumped out of the plug at the time, the store's owner, Cameron Thun, said at the time.
Letnes, who was convicted of four counts of robbery, had no criminal record prior to the convictions.
