Career Criminal Gets Prison For Bristol Robbery

BRISTOL BOROUGH, PA — A man with a long criminal history will spend up to three decades in prison after pleading guilty to the robbery of a Bristol gas station.

Eric Lamonte Jones, 46, pleaded last week in the 2016 robbery at the G-Fuel store on Bristol Pike. In his Nov. 8 plea, Jones admitted to entering the gas station and obscuring his hand inside his sleeve to give the store clerk the impression he had a gun.

He also admitted that he was holding an ice pick during the robbery.

Jones and Larry McLean, who was carrying a knife, made off from the G-Fuel with about $130.

Bucks County Judge Wallace H. Bateman, Jr. sentenced Jones to 15-30 years in state prison for the crime. McLean has not yet been sentenced, prosecutors said.

Even though Jones pleaded guilty, the Bucks County District Attorney's office said Bateman considered his lengthy rap sheet, which includes felony convictions for robbery, burglary, theft and kidnapping in Bucks and Philadelphia counties.

McClean, 56, of Bristol, has pleaded guilty to robbery but has not yet been sentenced, prosecutors said.

Photo courtesy Bucks County District Attorney's office