A man dubbed the Bomber Robber because he tried to rob a Santa Monica jewelry store by threatening to blow it up has been sentenced to two years in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.

Deputy District Attorney Daniel Merrick said Robert Abalov, 33, of Los Angeles, was sentenced on March 26, immediately after pleading no contest to one count of attempted second-degree robbery.

On Feb. 28, 2018, the defendant entered a store in the 1600 block of Montana Avenue and ordered the owner to give him jewelry while threatening to detonate a bomb that turned out to be fake, the prosecutor said. The owner escaped the store. Abalov then drove off and crashed into a vehicle near 15th Street and Carlyle Avenue.

A 69-year-old woman was injured in the crash. The defendant then fled on foot and eluded capture until his arrest three months later.