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The Utah Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of a man who, with his girlfriend, robbed a Logan convenience store at gunpoint five years ago.

Steven Michael Fairchild, 37, and Kelsee Elizabeth Bell, 25, both of Logan, were armed with matching chrome handguns when they robbed the Common Cents convenience store at 1905 South and U.S. 89-91 on the night of Nov. 17, 2011.

Clad in hooded sweat jackets and ski masks, they burst into the store, demanded money from two clerks and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. No shots were fired.

Another store employee, who later viewed surveillance camera footage of the robbery, recognized Fairchild, who was a regular customer, according to a Friday ruling by the appeals court.

Fairchild and Bell were arrested four days later in possession of four guns, which were allegedly stolen from a Wyoming pawn shop, and a large quantity of psychedelic mushrooms, court records show.

They each were charged with first-degree felony aggravated robbery and nine other felonies, including drug possession, possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person and theft by receiving stolen property.

Bell pleaded guilty to the aggravated robbery count, the other counts were dismissed. She was sentenced to five-years-to-life prison term, and was still serving that sentence, prison officials said Friday.

Fairchild went to trial and was convicted by a 1st District Court jury of all 10 counts. After the verdict, the trial judge found Fairchild — who was on parole for a 1998 aggravated robbery conviction — was an habitual violent offender. That allowed four second-degree felony counts of possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person to be enhanced to first-degree felonies, which are punishable by up to life in prison.

The judge ordered all 10 prison terms to run consecutively, for a 30-years-to-life term.

Fairchild appealed his conviction, claiming among other things that he was harmed by the admission of evidence that he was on parole at the time of the robbery.

On Dec. 18, 1998, Fairchild robbed the First Security Bank in Logan at gunpoint, getting away with $1,100, according to court documents.

The appeals court agreed the evidence should not have been admitted, but said the error was harmless.

The jury heard testimony from several witnesses who placed Fairchild at the scene of the robbery,and prosecutors presented physical evidence linking him to the drug and gun crimes, according to the appeals court ruling.

"When the weight of the evidence supports conviction, we will not reverse merely because one bit of evidence was tainted," the appeals court ruling stated.