Subway firebug gets 7 years for robbery, torching booth with worker inside
A Crown Heights man with 14 previous convictions was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday for attempted robbery after he torched a Brooklyn subway booth, leaving a worker in the gasoline-filled kiosk for almost an hour.
A supportive group of members from the Transport Workers Union showed up at Brooklyn Supreme Court to watch Everett Robinson get sentenced, hoping for a long prison term.
“He should have had a life sentence or at least 20 years,” Vice President of Stations Derrick Echevarria said outside the courtroom. “So this was a step in the right direction, but we’re still not satisfied by any means.”
Robinson, 52, poured gasoline into the transaction slot of a subway booth at the Nostrand Avenue 3 station in Crown Heights last summer while worker Percillia Augustine-Soverall watched from inside.