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Man who robbed Ukiah Subway store sentenced to state prison
NORTH COAST, Calif. – A former Lake County resident was sentenced to state prison on Tuesday for robbing Ukiah’s Subway store.
Dorian Michael Coon, 21, formerly of Willits and Lakeport, was sentenced by Judge Keith Faulder on Tuesday in Mendocino County Superior Court to 84 months in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office.
Officials said Coon was convicted by plea on Jan. 3 of two felony counts of robbery in the second degree.
The robbery was committed approximately two weeks before Christmas 2018 inside the Subway sandwich shop in Ukiah.
The defendant also admitted he personally used a dangerous weapon – a pellet gun – in the commission of the robberies.
Because he stands convicted of crimes characterized as “violent” in the state Penal Code, any credits defendant Coon earns in prison towards early release shall be limited to no more than 15 percent of his overall sentence, meaning no more than 18 months.
These convictions also constitute a strike offense for future use, within the meaning of the modified three strikes law.
Ukiah Police officers responded to the Subway at 130 N. Orchard Ave. shortly after 7 p.m. Dec. 12 to a report of shots fired. When they arrived, they found Coon in front of the Ross Dress for Less store with multiple gunshot wounds. He was flown to an out-of-county hospital where he was treated for his injuries.
Officials said eyewitnesses told police that Coon had robbed the Subway with a gun and that during the robbery an armed customer inside of Subway – who had a valid concealed carry weapons permit – shot Coon.
The District Attorney’s Office said that during the followup investigation, investigators learned that Coon used a realistic-looking pellet handgun to commit the crime.
A co-defendant, Alexander Donovan Romero, age 20, of Willits, was convicted in June 2019 of being an accessory to robbery, a felony and placed on 36 months of supervised formal probation.
One term of that probation was that Romero serve 180 days in the county jail, a sentence that he has since completed, the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office reported.
The investigating law enforcement agencies were the Ukiah Police Department and the Mendocino County District Attorney Office’s own investigators.
Assistant District Attorney Dale P. Trigg handled the prosecution of defendant Coon. Robbery victims appeared at the sentencing and spoke about the impacts on their lives.