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Serial robber sentenced

Sylvan Lake robber sentenced to 54 months for string of crimes

A serial robber was recently sentenced to 54 months in prison.

Aaron Mays, 25, of Sylvan Lake, was convicted of five counts of robbery and wearing a disguise in the commission of an offence.

Mays was arrested by RCMP responding to complaints of a robbery in at Sylvan Lake’s Bayshore Market on Jan. 11. Acting on witness descriptions, police pulled over a suspect vehicle and arrested the occupant.

Evidence found in the vehicle linked Mays to a number of other robberies in town, mostly at liquor stores, in the weeks preceding.

Mays had been facing 16 charges in all. The Crown withdrew the remaining counts.