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Escambia Man Gets 15 Years For One Day Robbery Spree
September 26, 2013
An Escambia County man has been sentenced to a decade and a half in prison for a one-day crime spree last New Year’s Eve.
Robert Tomas Ward, 25, pleaded no contest to three counts of robbery with a weapon, one count of resisting an officer without violence and two counts of attempted robbery without a weapon. Following the plea, Circuit Judge Joel W. Boles sentenced Ward to 15 years in state prison.
On December 31, 2012, Ward robbed, or attempted to rob, five separate businesses in the New Warrington Road area, including Subway, Dollar General, Family Dollar and two Circle K stores. When Ward entered each store, he indicated that he had a weapon and demanded the clerk empty the cash register. In both the Subway and Family Dollar robberies, store clerks refused to hand over any cash.
No weapon was seen by any of the store clerks, and law enforcement was unable to locate a weapon.
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15yrs…….is that all! Lord, our justice system stinks!