Mar 28, 2016 2 min read

WAYNESBURG – A Masontown man who threatened two Carmichaels women with a gun last May was sentenced Monday to 8 to 16 years in prison.

Robert Jermaine Bailey, 43, of 38 Fort Mason Village, was convicted by a Greene County jury in January of burglary, possession of a firearm, terroristic threats, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault, harassment and possession of a small amount of marijuana.

“I had a drug problem, and that’s where a lot of my anger came from,” Bailey said in court during his sentencing Monday. “I was going to church and doing nice things and stuff, but I let my anger get ahead of me.”

Bailey pointed a small black pistol at Jennifer Colina and Tiffany Prescher at a house at 151 Cumberland Village and threatened to shoot one of them in the face May 24. Bailey knocked a telephone from Colina’s hand when she attempted to call police, and told the women if they went to police he would shoot them, Cumberland Township police said.

Police later saw Bailey at a house down the street but he jumped over a chain-link fence and ran away. A small black pistol was later found in the area.

Police found Bailey hiding in the basement of a house at 200 S. Market St., where he had pushed his way inside an apartment and demanded clothing from an occupant.

At his sentencing, Bailey and his attorney, Patrick Fitch, asked Greene County Judge Lou Dayich to consider concurrent sentences for his charges with a low amount of jail time because “he is engaged to be married and has little kids that look up to him,” Fitch said.

But Dayich said there wasn’t much room to budge on the sentencing because Bailey has 17 prior convictions.

Bailey was acquitted on other charges of criminal trespassing, carrying a firearm without a license, theft, receiving stolen property and possession of drug paraphernalia.