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Man imprisoned for robbery at pharmacy
Yeatts also tried to steal from cashier
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
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A Hollywood man was sentenced this week to serve five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a robbery charge from a struggle with a woman for her purse outside a pharmacy.
Jason Lawrence Yeatts, 32, also was charged with attempting to rob a cashier at the CVS pharmacy on Route 235 in Lexington Park on July 7, moments before the confrontation with Lindsay Ann Robusto as she was walking toward her car.
Yeatts said inside the store and again in the parking lot that he had a gun, police report, but a prosecutor said Tuesday in court that Yeatts' concealed implement proved to be nothing more than a hygiene product as he and Robusto fought over her purse.
"A deodorant can fell out from under his shirt," St. Mary's Assistant State's Attorney Robyn Riddle said at the plea hearing.
Yeatts drove away from the scene with a wallet that spilled out of the purse, the prosecutor said, and law officers arrested him a short time later at a highway intersection in California. Police also charged Yeatts with the possession of cocaine.
"Much of his criminal activity is drug-driven," Riddle said in court of Yeatts' record.
Yeatts said, "I apologize for my actions."
In 2007, Yeatts was severely injured when a woman shoved the handle of a plunger into his rectum during a scuffle outside a home in Clements where he tried to get cocaine, according to testimony.
Robin Alana Thompson, 39, of Tall Timbers was convicted of first-degree assault and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
"I remember him as a victim," St. Mary's Circuit Judge Michael J. Stamm said this week at Yeatts' sentencing hearing. "What good has ever come out of your being [involved with] drugs? I think that drugs have destroyed probably the most fun part of your life."
Through the plea agreement, the judge sentenced Yeatts to seven years in prison, suspended to the five-year term and any recommended drug counseling during three years of supervised probation.
