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Kansas teen sentenced for violent convenience store robbery

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HUTCHINSON— The final of four young Kansas men convicted for being involved in the January robbery of a Kwik Shop at 43 and Plum in Hutchinson was sentenced Friday to nearly seven-years in prison.

The attorney for Dakota Ney, 19, Hutchinson, asked for a dispositional departure to community corrections for the conviction of aggravated robbery.

District Judge Tim Chambers would have no part of that because of the violence involved by this defendant.

It was Ney who forced the clerk to open the drawer and give money while the other two stole cigarettes and other items.

He also knocked the victim to the floor, used a taser device on her while kicking and beating her.

She still suffers from those injuries today and appeared in court with a walker. She was allowed to speak and told the judge that she can’t forgive him and does not believe he should be allowed to walk the street. She told the judge, “I couldn’t live with that.”

Two other suspects Karl Koenig, 19, and Drake Lindsay, 19, entered pleas involving the Kwik Shop robbery as well as the burglary of a smoke shop.

Lindsay was sentenced to five years and six months in prison while Koenig received a more harsher sentence of six years and seven months because of past criminal convictions for burglary and criminal damage.

Kurt Koenig was given two years ten-months in prison after he entered a plea to conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. He was the one who drove the vehicle for the other three and never actually entered the store.

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