Man Sentenced For Robbing Phoenixville Shopowner That Just Hired Him: Report

A Phoenixville shopowner tried to help out a man by giving him a job, but he had other ideas.

John William Pufko broke into the Pisano & Son Shoe Repair store in the Village at Eland shopping center just two days after being offered a job there, according to a Pottstown Mercury report.

When Pufko heard someone coming at the door, he allegedly finished the beer he was drinking, took $90 from the cash register, and jumped out the back window, the report states.

The incident occurred at 4:15 a.m. on Feb. 14, and the man at the door was Dan Pisano, the shopowner that had given Pufko the job, the report states.

“This was an innocent victim who took a chance on the defendant,” Deputy District Attorney Michelle Frei, the prosecutor in the case, said, according to the Mercury.

Pufko was recently sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in prison for the crime, the report states.