Chester McDonald’s worker from inside job robbery sentenced as youthful offender, brother gets 4 years

A Chester County McDonald’s employee who was part of an inside job cooked up by his older brother to rob the restaurant last year was sentenced to up to four years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to his role in the plot.

Roderick Gordon, 20, whom prosecutors said in an earlier hearing confessed to his role in the scheme and implicated his brother and two others, pleaded guilty as a youthful offender and will serve no more than four years after sentencing by Judge Brian Gibbons, said Julie Hall, 6th Circuit deputy solicitor.

At around 1 a.m. Nov. 25, deputies responded to allegations that two masked men robbed employees of $2,500 at the restaurant on S.C. 9 near Interstate 77 in Richburg, and that shots were fired. Police found two employees, including Roderick Gordon who was not on duty for work at the time, in the stall of the male restroom.

Detectives later arrested Roderick Gordon, his older brother and alleged ringleader Ricky Gordon, another employee alleged to have been told of the scheme and given the chance to flee beforehand, and a juvenile in the robbery plot.

Ricky Gordon, 28, who was out on bond on other charges when store was robbed and fired the shots, had been arrested at least 20 times as an adult, previous court testimony showed. Ricky Gordon pleaded guilty last month to strong armed robbery in a plea deal and was sentenced to four years in prison to be followed by three years probation, according to court and prison records.

The teen pleaded guilty last month but has yet to be sentenced, said Hall the prosecutor. The case against the other employee remains pending.

This story was originally published July 28, 2015 at 1:27 PM with the headline "Chester McDonald’s worker from inside job robbery sentenced as youthful offender, brother gets 4 years."