SALEM, Mass. --An Iraq war veteran who admitted robbing St. Jean’s CU in adjacent Lynn four times over a seven-week span last year to feed his cocaine addiction received three to six years in prison as well as two years of probation Friday.
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Derek Chriastiansen, 35, pled guilty to four charges of unarmed robbery.
Christiansen’s lawyer told the judge the defendant served as a Marine, and did tours in Iraq, Bosnia and Germany, but now suffers from manic depression and post traumatic stress disorder brought on from his childhood and military position.
