An 18-year-old Warren and East Providence man with a long rap sheet will spend two years in prison after pleading no contest to charges of assault with a B.B. gun and second degree robbery.

Aden Hebert pleaded no contest to the charges at a Feb. 26 hearing. For each charge, the judge ordered him to serve two years in prison — concurrently — with eight years of probation and an eight-year suspended sentence upon his release. He was also ordered to undergo mental health and alcohol counseling.

Mr. Hebert was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon on Sept. 14, 2007, after police received a report of a 19-year-old Warren man being shot with a "handheld pellet gun" near the East Bay Bike Path. Mr. Hebert was arrested after an investigation.

Mr. Hebert was again arrested by Warren police in December 2007 after they received a report that two men beat up a 16-year-old Warren boy and stole $50 from him in a park two months previous. Mr. Hebert's accomplice, 24-year-old Christopher Hyde of 68 Union St., was ordered to serve five months at the time because the charge violated his parole from an earlier arrest.

Mr. Hebert was also arrested at about the same time by East Providence police for obstruction of justice. When they went to his house, police said Mr. Hebert gave them a fake name. He was given one year of probation and ordered to pay court costs at a December 2007 hearing, but a warrant was issued for his arrest after he did not appear at a Jan. 10 hearing. He was arrested again on Jan. 15 and paid in full at the time.

After this, Mr. Hebert was arrested again in January 2008 by Bristol police after an accident on Tower Hill Road. According to police, he was arrested for driving without a license and leaving the scene of an accident. A court date was scheduled for April 2, but it has been postponed because of his two-year sentence.

By Stephen Greenwell

sgreenwell@eastbaynewspapers.com