HUTCHINSON, Kan. — One of the four young men convicted of being involved in the robbery of a local Kwik Shop was sentenced Friday and was given two years, 10-months in prison.

Kurt Koenig had entered a plea to conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery after waiving his preliminary hearing. He was the one who drove the vehicle for the other three and never actually entered the store.

The state asked for mid-range sentence, but Judge Tim Chambers gave him the maximum sentence for the crime he was convicted of.

As per agreement, none of the defendants can asked for any type of non prison sanction.

Koenig told the judge there is nothing he could say to justify his actions and says he let his family down and said he’s sorry for the victim, not only for the physical injuries but for the mental ones as well.

Dakota Ney also entered a plea to conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, but his sentence has been continued two weeks.

The other two also waived their rights to a preliminary hearing and then entered pleas involving the Kwik Shop robbery as well as the burglary of a smoke shop. Nineteen-year-old’s Karl Koenig and Drake Lindsay entered pleas to aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit burglary with all the other charges dropped. The sentencing hearings for these two are expected next week.

The four were involved in the robbery of the Kwik Shop at 43rd & Plum back on Jan. 27.

It was Ney that forced the clerk to open the drawer and give money while the other two stole cigarettes and other items. He is also the one who knocked the victim to the floor, using the taser device on her and kicking her. She still suffers from those injuries today and appeared in court with a walker.

Hutchinson Police Detectives executed two search warrants where they found a large amount of the stolen property from the Kwik Shop robbery and items from the burglary of the smoke shop, which occurred a few days after the robbery on Feb. 1.