<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2FNOlo_0mCmeOOb00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2FNOlo_0mCmeOOb00" width="1320" height="743" ></figure>VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver man was sentenced to more than six years in prison after he was found guilty of robbing a drug dealer at gunpoint at a Portland apartment complex back in 2021.Anthony James Pastorino, 43, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison. He will also serve five years of post-prison supervision.Court documents show that Pastorino to waited outside of an apartment complex on Hayden Island on September 30, 2021 to rob a known drug dealer.There was a shootout when the drug dealer arrived, and both that person and Pastorino were injured. Pastorino took the dealer’s backpack during the incident.“A later search of Pastorino’s phone revealed text messages wherein [an accomplice] directed Pastorino during the robbery and provided information about their target,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said.Pastorino was arrested nearly a month later. He pleaded guilty to using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in February of 2023.The accomplice who directed Pastorino, Seth Teig, 38, also of Vancouver, was sentenced in March of 2023 to 92 months in prison for orchestrating the robbery.</div></body>

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Vancouver man sentenced to prison time for robbing drug dealer in Portland

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver man was sentenced to more than six years in prison after he was found guilty of robbing a drug dealer at gunpoint at a Portland apartment complex back in 2021. Anthony James Pastorino, 43, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison. He will...