SIOUX CITY – A man who robbed a Sioux City business on September 11, 2019, was sentenced October 27, 2020, to more than 10 years in federal prison.
Noah Pineda, 21, from Sioux City, Iowa, received the prison term after a guilty plea to interference with commerce by robbery, using, carrying, and brandishing a short-barreled rifle during and in relation to the robbery, and possession of a firearm by a domestic abuse misdemeanant.
Evidence presented by the United States at the detention, change of plea, and sentencing hearings revealed on September 11, 2019, Pineda entered Sarg’s Mini Mart convenience store wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a white mask. Pineda displayed a shortened rifle, pointed it at the clerk, and demanded money from the cash registers and clerk’s purse. Pineda grabbed the money out of both registers, took money from the clerk’s purse, and ran from the store. With the assistant of a police K9, Pineda was found hiding in nearby bushes and was arrested. Pineda admitted to the robbery. Pineda told officers he hid the gun, a loaded .22 caliber rifle, under a shed in the area where he was found hiding. Pineda admitted the September 11, 2019, robbery was just one of a number of armed robberies he had committed. Pineda has a long history of violence that started when he was 12 and includes convictions for domestic assault and domestic abuse assault causing bodily injury.
Pineda was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Pineda was sentenced to 132 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 4-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
