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Man gets up to 10 years for July motel robbery

A man involved in the July 15 robbery at a Cranberry Township motel will spend up to 10 years in prison.

Christopher Mangelli, 24, of Koppel, Beaver County, was one of four people arrested in the robbery of the Red Roof Inn on Route 19. He was sentenced today to spend 60 to 120 months in state prison by Butler County Judge William Shaffer.

Mangelli earlier this month pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and robbery. He is the second of the quartet to be sentenced. William McCormick, also of Koppel, was sentenced earlier this month to 18 to 60 months in prison.

The defendants, all of Beaver County, reportedly knew the clerk working early that morning, a 23-year-old Ellwood City woman. Mangelli and McCormick walked into the motel wearing masks and indicated they had weapons. They demanded money from the safe and then waited with the clerk for 15 minutes until the safe, which was on a timer, opened.

He also was ordered by Shaffer to pay restitution to the clerk and Red Roof Inn. The robbers took about $740 from the safe and took the clerk's cell phone and wallet.

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