A 29-year-old Dayton man has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing a Speedway gas station in Germantown overnight in September. Marsean Holt was sentenced on November 10, closing out a case that began with a predawn 911 call and ended with investigators tracking him to an address in Middletown.
According to the WKEF report, Germantown police said officers responded to a reported robbery at about 1:30 a.m. on September 29 at the Speedway gas station in the 2000 block of Dayton Germantown Pike. The call sent officers into an investigation that would ultimately lead them outside Germantown city limits entirely.
Investigation Leads Police to Middletown
During the investigation, officers were led to an address in Middletown, the station's report states. That lead resulted in Holt's arrest, though the exact circumstances of how he was located and taken into custody were not detailed in the available account.
Holt was charged with one count of robbery following his arrest. He later pleaded guilty to that charge, per the same account, setting the stage for his sentencing hearing earlier this month.
Three-Year Sentence Handed Down
A judge sentenced Holt to three years in prison on November 10, the report notes. No further detail on the sentencing proceedings, such as a case number or the judge's reasoning, was included in the available reporting.
Ohio law classifies robbery offenses by degree depending on the specific conduct involved. Under Ohio Revised Code Section 2911.02, a violation of certain subsections of the robbery statute is classified as a felony of the second degree, though it is not established which subsection, if any, applied in Holt's case.
