A Marseilles man was sentenced to prison and a woman from Odell was given probation for lying to an Ottawa police officer during the initial investigation of a service station robbery on the city's South Side Sept. 9.

Jason M. Schenherr, 20, 235 Clark St., pled guilty to obstruction of justice in a plea agreement Friday with La Salle County prosecutors in the courtroom of Judge H. Chris Ryan, Jr. As part of the negotiated deposition, Schenherr was given 30 months in the Department of Corrections followed by a year of mandatory supervised release. He was credited for 73 days previously spent in county jail.

Schenherr has several prior felony convictions.

Jennifer Colman, 21, 208 S. Morgan St., also entered into a guilty plea agreement on the same charge stemming from the same incident. She was given 30 months of probation by Ryan and ordered to spend 10 weekends in county jail beginning at the end of the month.

Both Colman and Schenherr were arrested after the BP Amoco, 911 First St., was robbed and a police officer, investigating a complaint of a suspicious vehicle near the scene, questioned the two about a third person thought to be the robber.

At the time, both Colman and Schenherr initially gave the officer false information but later confirmed the third person was David D. Boyd of Odell, who was soon charged with the robbery.

An undisclosed amount of cash and merchandise was taken during the holdup. A weapon was not displayed or implied but a knife was later found on Boyd's person, police said.

Boyd remains in county lockup since his arrest with bond set at $150,000. He needs $15,000 cash to be released.