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A Knoxville man pleaded guilty Thursday in Anderson County Criminal Court to reduced charges in a 2012 armed robbery at a Clinton loan store.
Adrian Nathaniel Butler, 20, had been charged with aggravated robbery and theft in the Jan. 12, 2012, robbery at the Cash2You store on Clinch Avenue in South Clinton, and he pleaded guilty to the theft charge and to a reduced charge of robbery.
In exchange for his plea, he was sentenced to eight years behind bars. He has been given credit for the two years that he has been in custody.
Authorities say that Butler was with another man who threatened an employee and her two 11-year-old daughters with an Airsoft pistol that had been altered to make it appear to look like a real gun. The men fled with more than $600 in cash, which police say they split with a third man who served as the getaway driver.
Butler agreed to testify against his co-defendants as part of his plea deal. No one was injured in the robbery.
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