Ayers received 26 years in prison for the Colony Square Shopping Center break-ins in July 2009 on his convictions of two counts of aggravated robbery with specifications, unlawful possession of dangerous ordnance, having a weapon under disability, two counts of breaking and entering, three counts of grand theft, and two counts of kidnapping with specifications.
Bronson also sentenced Ayers to 12 months in prison on each felony charges of breaking and entering and possession of criminal tools and six months for misdemeanor theft for a robbery at the Speedway gas station on Main Street in January 2009. Those sentences are to be served concurrently and consecutively to the other prison sentences he received.
Ayers and his father, Melvin Ayers, 52, broke into Davidson’s Jewelers and the Sav-A-Lot store in the Colony Square Shopping Center on East Main Street in Lebanon.
Ayers was convicted in Hamilton County on charges of burglary and two counts of having a weapon under disability and is serving six years at the Lebanon Correctional Institution, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections website.
In August, Melvin Ayers, who also is serving time in prison, entered guilty pleas to several charges. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for convictions of breaking and entering, felony theft, breaking and entering with specifications, aggravated robbery with specifications, grand theft with specifications and two counts of kidnapping with specifications.
He was ordered to pay more than $30,000 in restitution. Melvin Ayers is incarcerated at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution on unrelated charges.
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