Two people who staged an armed robbery at a Des Moines gas station last summer have been sentenced in separate hearings in Polk County District Court.

Samantha Lynn Buchman, 38, who was working as the store clerk the night of the incident, was sentenced Nov. 3 to two five-year prison terms that were suspended in favor of probation. Four days later, on Nov. 7, Blake Allan Christy, 35, the man who entered the store with a handgun, received two five-year prison sentences that he must serve in state custody. His two sentences run at the same time but will be added onto his existing parole obligations, according to court records.

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