Crime & Safety
Hot Coffee-Throwing Robber Sentenced to 10 Years
The man was involved in a robbery with another man in which they threw a hot cup of coffee at a convenience store cashier.
A Howard County Circuit Court Judge sentenced a 21-year-old Columbia man to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a coffee-throwing robbery that netted $150 from a Columbia gas station.
Michael Elliott Dickey, Jr., of the 8800 block of Flowerstock Rd., pleaded guilty earlier this month to the Jan. 5 robbery of the Exxon gas station on Snowden River Parkway.
Dickey's co-defendant, Stanley Colby Berry, of Baltimore, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years.
Police said the men entered the convenience store at the gas station around 3:10 a.m. on Jan. 5, with hoods pulled closely over their faces. As one of the men approached the counter, he threw a hot cup of coffee at the cashier's face while the other one pulled out a silver handgun and demanded money. Dickey took about $150 from both drawers, according to court records.
A crime scene technician found Dickey's fingerprint on the coffee cup, according to senior assistant state's attorney James Dietrich.
Judge Timothy J. McCrone sentenced Dickey to 10 years, suspending five, on armed robbery and gun charges.
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