Jesse Derick Giddings, who, in September, was convicted of robbing Boost Mobile, 620 Hepburn St., on Nov. 12, 2020, and four days later, Family Dollar, 1221 W. Fourth St., was convicted of a third robbery following a trial before Lycoming County Judge Ryan Tira, according to court documents.

In reaching their verdict Monday, the jury convicted Giddings for the Dec. 3, 2020 robbery of a Subway, located at 1733 E. Third St. in Loyalsock Township.

The incident was recounted during Giddings’ first robbery trial, however, due a court order, the Subway robbery, as well a fourth at Your Choice, 653 Washington Blvd., which Giddings is accused of perpetrating on Nov. 25, 2020, had to be tried separately, former Assistant District Attorney and current Deputy Chief Public Defender Matthew Welickovitch told the Sun-Gazette following the initial proceedings in September.

Any mention of the Your Choice robbery was also forbidden by the court order.

Giddings, clad in a hoodie and face mask, initially visited the restaurant about an hour prior to the 6:30 p.m. robbery, but did not purchase anything at that time, a then-17-year-old sandwich artist working in the store that night testified during the September hearing.

Before initiating the robbery, Giddings ordered two wraps and a salad with meatballs, something that the victim said stuck out in her mind as an odd request.

Store surveillance entered into evidence showed a tense scene as a second employee prepared for closing, unaware of the dramatic events unfolding just feet from them.

The GPS coordinates of Giddings’ ankle monitor placed him near this robbery, investigators testified.

A total of $385 was stolen in the incident.

In total, Giddings was found guilty of robbery, possession of a firearm without a license, theft by unlawful taking, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault and terroristic threats for the subway robbery.

Giddings’ MO at Subway was similar to his method at the previous heists, during which he donned a face mask, something that would not have been out of the ordinary in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was argued in court.

During the Boost Mobile heist, a manager for the company at the time, testified that a masked man brandished a black and silver handgun and demanded she empty the cash register before making off with $587, as well as 14 iPhones, for a total of $7,266.84.

Six of the phones were later turned into kiosks at Wal-Mart and the former Lycoming Mall. The kiosks provide money in exchange for old cell phones.

An attempt to glean money from the iPhones led police to Giddings when the serial numbers of the phones came up as matching those stolen from Boost Mobile, according to authorities.

Using the required photo identifications provided at the Kiosks, police interviewed two individuals attempting the exchanges, who said they received the phones from Giddings.

Authorities, aware that Giddings was on parole, contacted his supervising officer for the GPS coordinates of Giddings’ ankle monitor, which showed he was in the vicinity of the three robberies around the times they occurred, according to court testimony.

During the robbery of the Family Dollar, Giddings walked behind the counter, pointed his gun at the clerk and demanded the money from the cash register, the victim in that case testified.

Being told the register would not open without a purchase, Giddings instructed the clerk to ring up four cartons of Newport 100s, which he left the store with, as well as $220.

Video surveillance taken of the scene captured several patrons going about their shopping, unaware of the unfolding event. One man even approached the counter with his items within seconds of Giddings backing out of the clerk area.

Giddings was found guilty of robbery, theft, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person for the two robberies, and sentenced to 14 to 28 years in state prison.

“This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen,” Lycoming County Judge William Carlucci said during sentencing on the first set of charges, musing over the fact that the robberies were committed while Giddings was under electronic monitoring.

Ironically, the sentencing came four years to the day that Giddings robbed Boost Mobile.

“These crimes were deplorable. You came very close to ruining the lives of these clerks,” Carlucci said to Giddings.

“It will take years for them to bounce back, if they’re ever able to,” he said, while acknowledging that the acts very well could have been worse, having resulted in the loss of someone’s life.

Giddings is set to stand trial for the robbery of Your Choice, though a date for that trial is not publicly available at this time.

He is scheduled to be sentenced for the Subway robbery on Nov. 4.