MONCTON, N.B. — A man who robbed a sandwich shop was caught when he unfriended the victim on Facebook shortly after the heist, a Moncton court was told this week.
Ryley Smith, 20, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison, prosecutor Jessica Lavoie said.
Smith admitted robbing a Subway franchise with a knife, his face masked with a bandanna, on Nov. 12, 2014. He vaulted the counter and demanded the approximately $1,000 in the register.
Soon afterward, the victim noticed Smith had unfriended him on the social media site, which got him thinking that perhaps Smith was the robber, Lavoie said in an interview Thursday.
The victim told police, who obtained a warrant for a DNA sample, and matched it to a bandanna found in the Subway parking lot after the robbery, said Lavoie. Smith was arrested last November in Calgary, where he was then living.
Judge Irwin Lampert's sentence was for three-and-a-half years, including the equivalent of six months for time served since his arrest.
