A Schuylkill County man was sentenced to a state prison term on Monday after admitting his part in a robbery in which the victim was stabbed.

Bobby Hamman, 22, of Coaldale, who listed a Scranton address at the time of his arrest, pleaded to one count each of robbery and aggravated assault, both felony 2s, and was sentenced by Judge Steven R. Serfass to serve 24 to 60 months in a state correctional institution. Serfass imposed the term on the robbery charge with an 18- to 60-month term handed out on the assault count, with the terms running concurrently.

In exchange for the plea the district attorney’s office dropped three other robbery counts, and one count each of simple assault, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy.

Hamman was one of three people charged in connection with a robbery that occurred on May 25, 2019, in Lehighton.

Detective Matt Arner of the Lehighton police said he responded to a report of a man who was robbed and stabbed in the area of Dunbar Bottling.

The victim told police that he had made arrangements with a man named Anthony Rush to purchase THC vape cartridges from him.

One witness told police she saw three men speeding away in a black Nissan Rogue, and that she took a photograph of the vehicle and the license plate as it left the parking lot. The other witness said he saw two men running from the D&L Trail to a small black SUV parked in the Dunbar Bottling parking lot. The witness described the driver as being bald, with facial hair and wearing glasses.

Police confirmed that the license plate from the photo came back to a Nissan Rogue SUV and the driver was identified as Nathan Gilman.

The victim told police he had previous contact with Rush and was able to positively identify him. He said that Rush offered to buy $300 worth of cartridges from him and they agreed to meet at the parking lot of the D&L Trail in the borough for this transaction.

He said that afternoon he parked his vehicle on the parking lot north of the D&L pavilion. Rush and another man, identified as Hamman, approached the vehicle. Rush entered his vehicle from the front passenger door and the other man entered from the rear passenger door.

He said the other man immediately slid behind him on the driver’s side and that Rush looked at him and said, “You know you are getting robbed.” He added that the man behind him said that he had a “piece,” and that Rush grabbed the cartridges.

The victim said that he had a small Adidas duffel bag in his center console, which contained his keys, driver’s license and $400. The men wanted the bag, but the victim said no and grabbed the bag.

The victim said that he was stabbed in the shoulder at that time by the man in the back and that the man then stabbed his hand and took the bag from him.

He said that he last saw them running toward Dunbar Bottling.

A print found on the rear passenger door handle was matched with Hamman.

Gilman identified both Rush and Hamman as the two other defendants in an interview with police.

Gilman said that he drove both Rush and Hamman to Lehighton, where they were going to get marijuana cartridges. He said that he was not told this was going to be a robbery and that he would be compensated by getting fuel in his vehicle.

Gilman said that he dropped them off at the Dunbar parking lot, and that they later came running to the car and told him to leave. He said that Hamman told him that he stabbed the victim in the shoulder and hand.

Gilman later said that both Hamman and Rush were throwing items belonging to the victim out of the car window before they reached the Lehighton Interchange on the turnpike. He said that he took Hamman and Rush back to Scranton and had no further contact with them.

Hamman apologized to the victim who was present for the proceeding. He made a brief statement to the court.

In addition to the prison term, Hamman was ordered to supply a DNA sample, make restitution of $1,371 to the victim, pay court costs of about $1,000 and have no contact with the victim.

Hamman, who has been in jail since his arrest last year, was given credit for 466 days spent in prison to date.

The Rush and Gilman cases are pending. Rush is awaiting trial and Gilman has a pretrial conference at the DA’s office scheduled for Oct. 27.