Klenda sentenced to four years
Brandon Klenda, 17, has been sentenced to serve a little more than 4 1/2 years in a Kansas juvenile correctional facility.
The Lincolnville teen-ager pleaded guilty May 26 in McPherson County District Court to the Jan. 3 armed robbery of the Roxbury State Bank.
Roxbury is in northeastern McPherson County.
Klenda was sentenced in McPherson County July 9 on a charge of aggravated robbery.
The presiding judge in the case found him to be a violent juvenile offender.
He is to serve in the juvenile facilty until he is 22 1/2 years old, then undergo six months of aftercare, according to a spokesman in the McPherson County Attorney's Office.
This means his release date will be March 2, 2008.
Klenda and his co-defendant, Jackie B. Davis, 20, of rural Ramona, also were ordered by the judge to make restitution of $4,676.49 to the Roxbury bank.
Klenda was to be taken immediately to the unidentified Kansas juvenile correctional facility, or to a holding facility until room became available for him at such a juvenile facility.
Davis also has pleaded guilty to aggravated armed robbery in the case. He was sentenced at midday Monday to 5 1/2 years in the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Sentencing occurred in McPherson County District Court under State of Kansas judicial guidelines.
The judge gave Davis 9.9 months of good time credit and credit for the time he has already spent in jail on the charge. That removes about 16 months from his sentence, leaving 50 months, a little more than four years.
The judge also ordered Davis not to possess any firearms for the next 10 years.
The judge on Monday also denied four requests by Davis: for a continuance of his sentencing, for a change of attorney, for withdrawal of his plea, and for departure of sentence.
The two were accused of robbing the bank of $5,681 at gunpoint.
Witnesses said the two entered the bank at 10:35 a.m. Jan. 3 wearing brown coveralls and navy blue ski masks.
McPherson County Sheriff Larry Powell said one was carrying a shotgun and the other a semi-automatic handgun.
The men fled in a 1988 Chevrolet Sprint allegedly stolen from a Herington car dealer. It later was recovered northeast of Roxbury.
After abandoning the car, the pair fled in a brown and silver half-ton Dodge pickup, Powell said. The truck was seen in Dickinson County the day of the robbery.
Klenda testified against Davis in a preliminary hearing in February.
