Man To Serve Six Years For Robbery

A judge ordered a 41-year-old man to serve six years behind bars on Wednesday following a plea earlier this year to a downtown mugging.

Anthony Council, of Broad Street, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery on Jan. 25. The plea dismissed charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree assault. Council also admitted to a probation violation on a prior robbery.

Judge Patrick J. Clifford sentenced Council in the to serve six years of a 12-year prison sentence with three years of probation. He also sentenced Council to three years to serve concurrent to the sentence on the probation violation. During probation, Council must have no contact with the robbery victim and undergo substance abuse and mental health counseling and treatment.

According to an affidavit by Officer Dustin Adkins of the , a man reported that he was walking up State Street with his girlfriend at about 12:20 a.m. on July 9. He told police that a man approached him, put a knife to his neck, and demanded his money. The man fled after the victim turned over the $33 he had.

Another officer spotted Council in the area and found that he had a knife matching the description given to police. The victim also visually confirmed Council as the person who had robbed him.

Council was previously convicted of second-degree robbery and second-degree larceny in Norwich in July of 2004. He was sentenced in May of 2005 to 10 years in prison, suspended after five years, with five years of probation.

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