San Diego

An 18-year-old Colorado man who held a night watchman hostage in a hotel for 33 hours at gunpoint was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in state prison.

Randy Dolph received the term for the Aug. 22 kidnaping of Donald Evans, 56, who worked at the Travelodge Hotel on Harbor Island. Evans was unhurt in the city’s longest SWAT incident.

Municipal Judge Charles Patrick also fined Dolph $500 and remarked that the defendant seemed more interested in harming himself than Evans, who was rescued by a SWAT team after he came to the hotel door to pick up breakfast outside.

Dolph’s parents attended the sentencing, as did Evans’.

Dolph pleaded guilty last month to kidnaping while being armed. He could have received a maximum 13 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Marian Modrak, Dolph’s attorney, told the judge “he meant no harm to Mr. Evans.” She added that Dolph had intended to kill or hurt only himself in the bizarre incident.

“There was no pointing the weapon to Mr. Evans’ head,” Modrak said.

The judge took personal jurisdiction in the case, which allows for prison officials to make a progress report back to Patrick, who could later reduce the sentence or commit Dolph to the California Youth Authority.