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December 19, 2012
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Roseburg man sentenced for robbing Rite Aid

A meth-addicted man convicted of holding up a Roseburg pharmacy for a bottle of Oxycontin was unable to persuade a judge Tuesday it was a spur-of-the-moment decision. Instead, John William Young, 32, of Roseburg was sentenced to 70 months in prison for second-degree aggravated robbery at his sentencing in Douglas County Circuit Court. Young could have received a lighter sentence if he had shown Judge Frances Burge he hadn’t planned the April 8 robbery. But Burge said it took “a lot of steps to get to Rite Aid.” Three lesser charges were dropped as part of a plea deal in …

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