A Portland man convicted by a Clark County jury last month in an armed robbery of a Vancouver pharmacy was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison.
Keandre D. Brown, 20, was facing about 45 to 50 years in prison in the August 2016 robbery at Mill Plain Pharmacy. But Judge Bernard Veljacic vacated some of the firearm enhancements the jury had found — which would have allowed for the longer-than-normal sentence — following a joint recommendation from the prosecution and defense.
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