SMETHPORT — A Portville, N.Y., man has pleaded guilty to a Bradford Township Kwik Fill robbery — one of multiple robberies he was accused of in Pennsylvania and New York during a several-day period in 2018.
Chase H. Lotter, 28, entered a guilty plea Thursday in McKean County Court before President Judge John Pavlock to one charge of robbery-threat of immediate serious injury, a first-degree felony.
District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer said that between July 31 and Aug. 1 in 2018, while a cashier at the Kwik Fill on South Avenue in Bradford Township was trying to complete a sale for a Red Bull, Lotter pulled out a wood-handled knife and demanded money from the register.
Lotter received about $332.62 from the register, Shaffer said.
He will be sentenced at 1 p.m. Sept. 12.
The Pennsylvania robbery was just one of several incidents in which Lotter was accused in late July 2018.
Lotter is currently serving a 10-year sentence in New York state prison for numerous crimes. He had been charged for crimes that occured between July 22 and July 30, 2018, in Allegany County, N.Y., including two robberies and multiple burglaries and thefts.
He was on the lam for the Allegany County crimes at the time of the Pennsylvania robbery.
Lotter was arrested Aug. 1, 2018, in the Rochester, N.Y., area.
