A Moultrie man who avoided a 2012 gang trial in which he faced charges of murder and robbery due to his lawyer’s illness has pleaded guilty to a 2010 robbery in Coolidge.

Nyneson Seymour Jeudy, 20, and Jarrett Jerrod Sutton, 22, also of Moultrie, pleaded guilty on July 17 to one count each of interference with commerce by robbery, Thomas County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Tim Watkins said Wednesday.

The two were accused of robbing the Dollar General store in Coolidge in March 2010.

Jeudy, a Colquitt County High football standout, also pleaded guilty in that robbery to possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. He will remain in federal custody until the two are sentenced on Oct. 28 in Valdosta, while Sutton was released on bond.

Jeudy was sentenced last year to a 15-year sentence on a conviction of a carjacking in Brooks County in which a man was shot.

With the robbery in Coolidge going through U.S. District Court, Jeudy will have a sentence imposed that will mean serving the separate sentences back-to-back instead of concurrently, Watkins said. He estimated that Jeudy could get up to an additional 15 years on the federal charges.

“That was the brainchild of a (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) agent,” Watkins said of the federal prosecution. “We appreciate the U.S. attorney’s office taking the case.”

There is no parole in the federal prison system, so inmates serve nearly all of the time imposed by a judge.

Jeudy’s legal issues will not be completed with the October sentencing, however. After that he will return to Colquitt County to face a charge of felony murder, seven counts of aggravated assault, three counts of armed robbery, burglary and seven counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Jeudy was one of 11 people whom police accused in an 80-count indictment in April 2011 of being part of a gang identified as the Forrest Hill Boyz.

His indictment in that case was related to the April 25, 2009, murder of 41-year-old Bernardino Perez and a home invasion later that night in which two people were shot, neither fatally. Perez, who also was known as Bernardino Perez Barcenas, was found shot to death that night in a driveway on Sardis Church Road.

Of the original 11 defendants, four pleaded guilty ahead of the May 2012 trial, four were found guilty and one not guilty, and charges were dismissed against one.

During a motion hearing shortly before the trial, Jeudy was separated from the case because his attorney had a lengthy illness and had not been able to prepare for trial.

“Those are still pending,” Assistant District Attorney Brian McDaniel said Wednesday of the murder, assault and burglary charges from the gang indictment. “We have not dismissed anything against Mr. Jeudy. The feds are almost through with him. We’ll take a look at him after that. With the feds at this point, I guess we’ll be next.”