A Parker man was given a state prison sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to robbing a Brady Township home in May 2024, seeking retaliation against a witness and fleeing from police while en route to a hearing on the retaliation charge.

Damean M. Felmlee, 29, was sentenced in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve 5 to 12 years in state prison and pay $13,300 in restitution after pleading guilty to charges in all three cases in a plea agreement.

He apologized to the victim, her family and the court before Judge Joseph Kubit imposed the sentences.

Felmlee said he will “take it as a lesson learned.”

He was sentenced to concurrently serve 4 to 10 years for robbery, 4 years for burglary, 3 to 6 years for conspiracy to commit robbery and 16 to 32 months for conspiracy to commit burglary — all felony charges. The sentence included serving 12 months of reentry supervision after he is released from prison, paying restitution to the victim of the May 6, 2024, robbery and to have no contact with her.

State police initially filed 24 charges against him.

The case against Felmlee’s co-defendant in the robbery case, Herbert D. Zellefrow Jr., 53, of Rimersburg, is pending in court. Zellefrow is facing the same 24 charges police filed against Felmlee, including felony robbery, burglary, theft, unlawful restraint, simple assault and terroristic threats; and multiple misdemeanor conspiracy charges. He also faces three felony counts of prohibited possession of a firearm and three related felony counts of conspiracy.

Police accuse the pair of showing up at the woman’s home and asking her to sign a petition, which she refused. They returned, saying their car broke down and asked to use her phone, which police said Felmlee used to call his own cellphone.

A day later, Felmlee and Zellefrow entered the woman’s residence, pointed guns at her and demanded $40,000, police said.

The men took the woman into a bedroom, tied her hands behind her back and each pointed a pistol at her again, threatening to kill her if she didn’t surrender the money, police said.

Felmlee and Zellefrow took $10,000 and told the woman not to move until they left the home, police said. After the woman freed herself, police said she discovered two cordless telephone handsets, rings, prescription drugs, three rifles and a shotgun were taken along with the cash.

In a second case, Felmlee was sentenced to consecutively serve an additional 6 to 12 months in prison for a misdemeanor charge of solicitation to commit retaliation against a witness or victim and ordered to have no contact with the victim. Police said on June 9, 2024, he asked his girlfriend to kill the person who reported the burglary to police.

In a third case, he was sentenced to consecutively serve an additional two 6 to 12 month terms in prison for felony charges of escape and conspiracy to escape. Police said he fled on foot from the Butler County Prison while he was being taken to his preliminary hearing.

Felmlee’s co-defendant in the escape case, Heidi M. Boots, 25, of Clarion, is facing a felony charge of conspiracy to commit escape. That case is pending in court.

Police said she agreed to wait for Felmlee after he escaped and pick him up at a boat shop on Route 38 in Summit Township.

In addition to the three cases in Butler County, Felmlee is serving a 4 to 10 year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a felony robbery charge state police filed following a May 21, 2024, robbery in Madison Township, Clarion County.

The Butler County sentences run concurrently with the Clarion County sentence.