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Man Gets 80 Years For Robbery Outside Mexican Restaurant
November 27, 2015
An Escambia County man will spend the next several decades behind bars for the armed robbery of a half dozen people outside a Mexican restaurant.
Circuit Judge Ross Goodman sentenced Toland Bonner to 80 years in state prison with 60 years to be served as a mandatory minimum. He will be required to serve the entire 60 years with no parole or gain time. He must then serve at least 85 percent of the remaining 20 years of his 80 year sentence.
An Escambia County jury convicted Bonner of one count of robbery with a firearm, five counts of attempted robbery with a firearm, one count of aggravated battery while in possession of a firearm, six counts of aggravated assault, one count of fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer, and one count of resisting an officer without violence.
On January 6, 2015, Bonner held up six victims standing outside the Los Rancheros Mexican Restaurant on Plantation Drive. Bonner fled the scene and was pursued by one of the victims until law enforcement joined the chase. Bonner eventually stopped his car on the side of the road and ran into a residential area in which he resided. Law enforcement later discovered that the vehicle was registered to Bonner and his passenger also identified Bonner. Furthermore, two of the victims identified Bonner in a photo lineup.
Bonner was previously convicted of six robberies in 2004.
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10 Responses to “Man Gets 80 Years For Robbery Outside Mexican Restaurant”
Well LOCAL RESIDENT….as a mother of one of the victims ,80 yrs for a gun to my sons head is not long enough. Just glad that he won’t have the chance to hurt someone else’s children. As for the driver of the car…karma will get you. Thanks Judge Goodman for a job well done.
One thing for certain, this thug won’t rob anyone else in the FREE world. Since he’s already been in the ‘big house’, it’s assumed that (1) he didn’t learn from the experience or (2) simply does’t care. He made his bed, let him lay in it. Forever!!
He was more than likely sentenced as a habitual offender and that’s why he received 80 years. I know for sure he’s been in & out of prison a few times already.
80 years…really??? This is essentially a life sentence. There must be more history here for such a harsh sentence. Crime must be punished but this seems excessive. Heck, the child predator from Subway only got 15 years.
80 years sounds reasonable to me
Wondering what this guy’s lifestyle will cost us Taxpayers over the 80 years.
Agree 100% that he, and Many Others, need to be removed from “society”
It just seems there should be some other type of punishment like put them on an island in the middle of the Pacific to fend for themselves with no cost to Taxpayers.
Thugs like this don’t deserve for us to have to take care of them.
Yes he deserves the time, however it’s a shame that murderers and child predators only get a quarter of that.
Yes, Local Resident. I do beleive that 80 years will better us.
Just because people break the law, do bad things or perhaps do things they shouldn’t. Doesn’t mean they should rot away in jail for the rest of their lives. Open mind and open hearts people. I’m not defending this gentleman at all and he should pay for what he did……but do you think that 80 years in prison will better him..or us????? God bless
This is what the law abiding community needs to see more of – putting these predators in prison long enough so that when they possibly survive the incarceration, when released, they will be barely able to walk. 1 down, and scores of scumbags to go…Thanks Judge Goodman.