TAUNTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A Taunton man has been sentenced to up to seven years behind bars for stealing $68 from a Dollar Tree cash register earlier this year, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn announced.
Goldie Vorce, 47, was sentenced Monday to five to seven years in state prison for robbing a Dollar Tree Store clerk in Taunton on June 5.
Vorce entered the store just after 8:00 p.m. and ordered the clerk to open the register drawer, threatening that he was armed with a knife, according to investigators. Once the drawer was open, Vorce grabbed $68 and fled the store on foot.
Vorce later admitted his involvement in an interview with police but denied he had a knife at the time of the incident.
“This is a defendant with a criminal history who does not belong on the street,” Quinn said after Vorce was sentenced.
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