Wilmington man convicted of robbing Pender County truck stop at gunpoint Jonathan Omar Kelly (Source: Pender County Sheriff s Office) By WECT Staff | January 29, 2021 at 12:51 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 12:52 PM
PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - A Wilmington man will spend at least six years in prison after he was convicted of robbing a Pender County truck stop at gunpoint back in 2019.
Jonathan Omar Kelly, 28, was found guilty by a Pender County jury on Thursday of two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon and given a 6 to 8.25 year prison sentence.
On Oct. 14, 2019, Kelly entered the Phoenix Travel Center, located on N.C. 210 near Interstate 40 in Rocky Point, and pulled a gun on two store clerks, demanding they empty the store’s three registers. After receiving $1,334 in cash, Kelly took off on foot. Prosecutors say the whole incident was caught on security cameras.