FARMINGTON — A Franklin County judge sentenced a Madison man on Friday to serve 21 months of an eight-year sentence for robbing Tranten’s Too in Kingfield in June 2012, according to court documents.

Judge Patrick Ende also ordered Kaleb Bowring, 20, to serve four years of probation when he is released.

He pleaded guilty Oct. 31 to a felony charge of robbery and a misdemeanor charge of theft.

Bowring admitted to police earlier this year that he went into the store on Main Street at about 8 p.m. June 18, 2012, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, a bandanna over his face and white gloves. He told the clerk to empty the till into a bag he put on the counter. He also admitted to pulling a gun when two witnesses chased him down and met up with him before he got into the waiting get-away car, according to previous court testimony.

Co-defendant Matthew Santamore, 22, of Vassalboro, pleaded guilty in October to the same charges. He was ordered in November to serve two years of an eight-year sentence and four years of probation for driving the get-away car in the robbery.

The men were also each sentenced to 364 days on the theft charge to run concurrent with the robbery charge.

The two were ordered to pay a total of $800, the amount that was taken in the robbery, to Tranten’s.

Bowring and Santamore are also banned from going to any Tranten’s store in Kingfield or Farmington.

Ende also ordered Bowring to pay $1,290 with Santamore to the Irving’s gas station in Norridgewock

The two burglarized the Norridgewock Irving’s gas station the day after the robbery at Tranten’s, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Robbins previously said.

The case was resolved prior to the robbery case, he said.

The conditions of the probation in the Somerset County case were added to the probation conditions in the Franklin County case.

Both men are prohibited from having contact with the victims at each store and each other.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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