BANGOR, Maine — The Orono man sentenced Tuesday to nearly 3½ years in federal prison in a fraud case was sentenced Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center on state charges.
Jason Robinson, 30, was sentenced to two years after pleading guilty to theft, dangerous driving and bail violation charges stemming from incidents in 2014 and 2015. He also was ordered to pay fines totaling $1,575.
Robinson, who did not address the judge Wednesday, previously served a 15-month federal prison term for illegally possessing a gun that he fired on a Bangor bus in 2010.
“You are filling up a heck of a criminal record for a 30-year-old man,” District Court Judge Gregory Campbell said in imposing sentence. “If you take anything again, you are looking at felony charges, even if it is just for a corn dog.”
One of the theft charges to which he pleaded guilty alleged he stole two corn dogs from a convenience store, Alice Clifford, deputy district attorney for Penobscot County, told the judge. Another involved the theft a package of cigarettes.
The driving charges to which Robinson pleaded guilty involved a high speed chase with police on June 9.
“Eluding a police officer at 7:30 a.m. is a really dangerous thing to do,” Campbell said. “People are going to work. Children are going to school. Forty-one months would look small if you had hit a kid going to school that morning.”
Robinson was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to three years and five months on fraud and wire fraud conspiracy charges, to be followed by five years of supervised release, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Robinson also was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to the federal charges in August.
Robinson conspired with others from February 2014 to May 2015 to steal merchandise from local stores, such as Wal-Mart and Hannaford, and sell it on eBay, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. He also would return stolen merchandise to Lowe’s and Home Depot in exchange for store credit.
By pleading guilty, Robinson admitted that he defrauded federally insured financial institutions by depositing worthless checks and withdrawing money before they bounced.
In March 2010, Robinson was arrested after he discharged a gun on a bus he was riding in Bangor that had at least 20 passengers on board, according to a previously published report. He was sentenced the following December to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of illegally possessing a firearm after being convicted on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge.
He was released on Jan. 3, 2012, after serving his sentence minus good time, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.
Bangor Daily News writer Ryan McLaughlin contributed to this report.