A SERIAL pharmacy bandit will serve a minimum of six months behind bars after being convicted of robbing $560-worth of prescription medicines from an Echuca pharmacy in Aug.
Liam James Stanger, 38, pleaded guilty to charges relating to the robbery at the Amcal Pharmacy on Hare St, Echuca, on 20 Aug, breaching a bail condition and driving while suspended, at Shepparton Magistrates Court on Fri.
Local police told the court that Stanger had entered the store shortly before 9am and approached the dispensary where he demanded quantities of methadone, codeine and oxycontin.
"He made threats that if staff did what he ask, then no one would get hurt," an officer said.
"There was no weapon produced."
Stanger was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, with a non-parole period of six months.
The Riverina Herald reported that Stanger was sentenced to seven months in jail in Aug 2018, after being convicted of a robbery at a Soul Pattinson Chemist in Wodonga in May 2018, were he stole more than $600-worth of medicines.
He has also been charged in relation to a bushfire at Koetong near Albury in Feb this year.
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