A judge today sentenced a Tonganoxie man to nine years in prison for robbing a Kansas University freshman at gunpoint last fall in the parking garage of an all-female residence hall.

District Court Judge Michael Malone sentenced Jesse A. Plaster, 23, to 102 months for aggravated robbery, plus 6 months for fleeing to elude police.

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Jurors in December convicted Plaster of the Sept. 27 robbery in the parking garage for Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin Halls. The robbery was the latest in a string of violent crimes in KU parking lots.

The school has signed a contract with a vendor to install security cameras at GSP/Corbin and the Daisy Hill residence halls at a cost of roughly $200,000. No timeline for the installation of the cameras has been set.

For more on the story and for students’ comments on the surveillance-camera issue, see the 6News report tonight at 10 p.m. on Sunflower Broadband’s channel 6 or read tomorrow’s Journal-World.