BANGOR, Maine — An Augusta man was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to seven years and three months in federal prison for driving the getaway car in a pharmacy robbery last year.
Lance Szady, 26, also was sentenced to three years of supervised release.
U.S. District Judge John Woodcock ordered Szady and his two co-defendants to pay jointly $1,076 in restitution.
Szady pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of interference with commerce by robbery for his role in the Sept. 2 robbery of the Rite Aid on Hospital Street in Augusta.
He was sentenced in 2011 in state court to 10 years in prison with all but 3½ years suspended after pleading guilty to 53 charges related to crimes that included a daytime drugstore robbery, a dozen self-storage unit break-ins and drug dealing, according to a previously published report.
Dominic Pomerleau, 22, of Augusta and Nicole Breton, 21, of Chelsea were sentenced earlier this year for their roles in the robbery. Szady drove Pomerleau to and from the store. Pomerleau went into the store about 6 p.m. and at the pharmacy counter demanded oxycodone, according to court documents. Breton was a passenger in the car driven by Szady.
The trio returned to Breton’s home where they consumed the oxycodone, according to the prosecution version of events to which she pleaded guilty. At one point in the evening, Breton and Szady found Pomerleau passed out and foaming at the mouth. They took him to an emergency room for treatment for a drug overdose.
Pomerleau was sentenced in May to seven years in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. Breton was sentenced earlier this month to one year and nine months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. She also was ordered to pay a $500 fine.
Szady faced up to 20 years in prison.