Robbery suspect sentenced after evading police for five years
NEW PHILADELPHIA – A Tuscarawas County robbery suspect who was on the run for five years will serve four years in prison for stealing a car and a gun back in June 2020.
Nicholas Bosna, 35, in February pleaded guilty to robbery, grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft of a firearm and petty theft. Judge Michael Ernest this week sentenced him to 48 months in prison, minus credit for time served.
Prosecutor Scott Deedrick says Bosna’s offenses in this case began when he left a substance abuse treatment facility in 2020. Deedrick says he stole a gun from an unlocked vehicle at a gas station, then stole a parked vehicle that been left running after ordering a 14-year-old passenger out of the car.
Bosna was apprehended that August but released from jail while awaiting trial. Deedrick says he missed a court date, cut off a GPS device and disappeared from a residential treatment facility.
Bosna reemerged in Lake County this past August. Fairport Harbor police arrested Bosna after they said he attacked two 18-year-old Fairport Harding students following a high school football game. Bosna faces two counts of assault and one count of aggravated menacing in Painesville Municipal Court.
Prior to returning to Tuscarawas County, Bosna pleaded guilty to a 2020 theft charge in Cuyahoga County and was sentenced to probation.
He was being held in the Tuscarawas County Jail as of Wednesday afternoon.