TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A man who admitted to robbing a series of drugstores in the Tucson area to get a prescription painkillers has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that 57-year-old Robert Federico Gutierrez had pleaded guilty to three armed robbery charges.
Gutierrez told a probation officer he became addicted to Oxycodone after hurting his shoulder doing masonry work.
Authorities say Gutierrez handed notes to pharmacy employees demanding drugs and sometimes threatened them with a gun.
