James William Lucas, 36, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Judge James Walsh rendered his decision this morning in provincial court in St. John's.
Lucas stole six T-bone steaks on Sept. 8 from a Sobeys supermarket on Topsail Road in St. John's, slashed a store employee with a knife and threatened to kill him and a security guard if they didn't let him go.
He pleaded guilty to seven charges — two counts each of assault with a weapon and uttering threats, and single counts of robbery with violence, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose and breaching an undertaking.
The Crown had asked for a jail term of no less than six years.
See Tuesday's Telegram for full story.
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Come on Kim you're smarter than that. It has nothing to do with the steaks or him being hungry. It has to do with the fact that he had a weapon, used it and threatened to kill people. In my opinion that deserves at least 5 years. If he had given himself up in the supermarket then this crime would have been classified as petty theft and not much would have happened to the guy. Think before you write Kim.