FARMINGTON – A Eustis man pleaded guilty Friday to robbing Wal-Mart of oxycodone Nov. 11 and threatening to blow up Howard’s Rexall, if a pharmacist didn’t give him prescription drugs, the same day.
Shawn Lord, 23, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery Friday in Franklin County Superior Court, as well as unrelated charges of criminal threatening, theft related to a firearm, trafficking in prison contraband and acquiring drugs by deception, according to court documents.
Justice Joseph Jabar sentenced Lord to eight years in prison with all but two years suspended for the robbery charges and four years probation and ordered to adhere to several conditions.
In the robbery cases, Lord threatened pharmacist Rob Witt at Howard’s in Farmington saying he had explosives and would blow the store up if he wasn’t given prescription drugs. Witt declined to hand over the drugs and Lord took off. A short while later, Lord appeared at Wal-Mart just down the road and threatened pharmacist David Hebert by saying he had a gun and got the pills he wanted.
Among the conditions Jabar imposed, he ordered Lord to undergo substance abuse counseling and treatment, submit to random search and testing for alcohol and drugs and not to enter Farmington Wal-Mart or Rexall’s.
Jabar also sentenced Lord to two years in prison on the other charges, to run concurrently with the initial sentence.
Lord’s attorney, Woody Hanstein, who was not in the Farmington court Friday but at other courts in the region, said that afternoon that his client is expected to serve the sentence at a state prison in Windham, where he’ll enter a therapeutic drug program to get help with his drug problem.
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