BANGOR (AP) – A 21-year-old rapper arrested in January outside the Orono nightspot where he had just performed was handed a 2-year prison term after pleading guilty to a 2005 street robbery in Bangor.

Duane Narvel Brown, who had been performing under the name “D Black,” was sentenced Wednesday in Penobscot County Superior Court to eight years with all but 2 years suspended and three years of probation.

Brown had eluded authorities in the days following the $32 robbery of a pedestrian on Essex Street on the night of Nov. 29, 2005. He was indicted last April for robbery, criminal threatening and theft. He also was wanted in Cumberland County for failure to appear in court on a concealed-weapon charge arising from an incident alleged to have occurred after the Bangor robbery.

Assistant District Attorney Greg Campbell said Thursday that the criminal threatening and theft charges were dismissed. Brown had been in jail since his Jan. 29 court appearance because he was unable to make bail, which had been set at $25,000 cash or $100,000 surety.

Brown’s accomplice, Melvin Gay, 20, turned himself in two days after the robbery. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in May to seven years with all but 18 months suspended.

Gau told police that he and Brown intended to scare a man who was walking ahead of them. Brown pointed a pellet gun at the victim, who lived in the neighborhood. When the man continued to walk up the street, Gay pushed the man to get his attention.

Brown, who advertised himself as a Boston-based rapper with 3-Deep Entertainment, was arrested by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency following his performance at the Bear Brew Pub in Orono.

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