Burlington police are looking for a man

 Bethany Smith told police she stole the bicycle for her drug dealer, saying she was using drugs at the time of the crime.  Burlington police are looking for a man who robbed a motel late Wednesday evening.Officers said a man entered the business, brandished a knife and demanded money from the clerk. The clerk complied with the suspect's demands and was left unharmed. The suspect fled the scene with an undetermined amount of money in an unknown direction.The suspect was described as being a white male with a dark complexion, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, 180 to 190 pounds, dark close-cut hair with a light growth of facial hair. He was wearing a short-sleeved white T-shirt and dark-colored pants.Luke Garner armed himself with a bread knife when he confronted the victim after being goaded by him.Mark Watson, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court: "Garner took the knife and went outside for a confrontation.

 "There was a scuffle between the two of them involving shoving, one or two punches and grappling."During the scuffle the victim received injuries caused by the knife. He had a one-inch cut on the ring finger of his left hand and three cuts to his right cheek. Those cuts are described as superficial and minor."Garner, 24, of Burrows Close, Grantham, admitted charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of a bladed article in a public place as a result of the incident on June 23 this year.He was given a 12-month jail sentence suspended for a year with 120 hours of unpaid work.Judge Michael Heath said that throughout the incident Garner had been trying to protect his partner's cousin from the victim.He told Garner: "Your mistake was to take a bread knife out into the street to frighten him into leaving. He had been goading you and what you should have done was simply keep the door locked."