CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A 36-year-old Charleston man has been sentenced in federal court for aiding and abetting a robbery affecting interstate commerce.
Robert J. Smith was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Wednesday. Court records say Smith and two others carried out an armed, home-invasion robbery in Marmet, West Virginia. Prosecutors said the men were robbing drug dealers they believed to be from Detroit, Michigan, and who they expected to have drugs and cash from the illegal drug sales. They stole drug proceeds from the apartment and then fled from the scene. During the robbery, a firearm was discharged inside the apartment.
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