BY DAN HILDEBRAN
General manager
A Lake Butler man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading to stealing a man’s wallet and striking him in the head during the robbery, leaving the victim with permanent injuries.
Darius Terrell “Poopman” Corbitt pleaded to robbery, felony battery, and witness tampering.
According to court papers, Corbitt picked up a woman from the victim’s apartment for a trip to McDonald’s, for which the victim had given the woman $5. Moments later, Corbitt returned to the victim’s residence and told the man they were $1 short for the food they wanted to purchase. When the victim got out his wallet to give Poopman the additional money, the defendant struck him in the face and head several times.
Deputies said the blunt force trauma from the robbery resulted in a brain hemorrhage and seizures, caused the victim to endure two surgeries, and requires him to live with “instruments from the surgery attached to his skull for the rest of his life.”
The woman whom the defendant picked up from the victim’s home before the robbery told deputies Corbitt threatened her and the victim for calling law enforcement after the crime. Corbitt claimed the man’s injuries resulted from a fall the day before the robbery.
