By Bill Lindelof
blindelof@sacbee.com
An Elk Grove man who traumatized a young clerk when he held up a sandwich shop has been sentenced.
Oleg Bool (left), 22, who pointed a pellet gun at the Subway sandwich shop employee during the hold-up, has been sent to state prison for two years. He pleaded guilty in Placer County Superior Court to second-degree robbery.
Bool was convicted of entering the restaurant on Foothills Boulevard in Roseville on Feb. 13, pointing the weapon in the face of a 20-year-old female clerk and escaping with cash. He was later caught jogging away from the shop with $362 and deposit slips from the Subway.
The gun, mask, gloves and clothes were found in bushes behind the shopping center where the Subway is located.
The clerk did not attend the sentencing, the Placer County District Attorney's Office said, but she said in a letter read in court that her life had changed significantly.
"In about 35 seconds, I went from a content and normal college student to a terrified mess," she wrote.
She was too upset to leave her home for days, fell behind in schoolwork and dropped classes as she lost her focus. She also quit the sandwich shop job.
"I hope one day I can move on and the thoughts won't haunt me any longer," the young woman wrote.
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