The Ray County man who admitted last month in court to robbing a Lexington pharmacy will spend the next 20 years in state prison.

A judge handed down the sentence Monday, May 11 to 42-year-old Louis M Patti, one month after he pleaded guilty to charges that he robbed a pharmacy on Business Route 13 at gunpoint last September, stealing oxycodone and Oxycontin. He also admitted to being a felon in possession of a weapon, as he had pleaded guilty to robbery of another pharmacy in 2012. Court documents accused Patti of walking into the pharmacy, drawing a pistol, and demanding the narcotics. Patti is said to have then jumped the counter and demanded employees open the cabinet containing the medications. He fled the scene but was apprehended by law enforcement outside Richmond.

Patti was sentenced to 20 years for the first-degree robbery charge and 12 years for unlawful possession of a firearm, with sentences to be served concurrently.