By Troy Gillard

HALLOWEEN NIGHT

Man sentenced for attempted gunpoint robbery at Blackfalds Motor Inn

Apr 8, 2020 | 5:01 PM

A man taken down by patrons while trying to rob the Blackfalds Motor Inn at gunpoint on Halloween night has been sentenced to more than four years behind bars.

It was at 12:42 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2019 when RCMP responded to a 911 call that a man was being held by patrons at the bar after he fired a shot during a robbery attempt. Responding officers then took the man into custody.

Mounties said that a single gunshot had been fired during the robbery attempt, but not at a person, while another shot was discharged during an ensuing struggle for the gun.

No one in the bar was injured from either of the gunshots, according to RCMP.

Ryan Allan Bell, 28, from Red Deer was sentenced March 30 on a count of robbery with a firearm to 54 months (4.5 years) behind bars, minus 7.5 months’ credit for time spent in custody, leaving him with 46.5 months left to serve.

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