CRESTVIEW — Lonnie Ray Hutto is sentenced to 30 years in the Department of Corrections on a robbery charge, according to William Eddins, the First Judicial Circuit's state attorney.
A jury convicted Hutto in October on charges that arose from an incident at the Crestview Wal-Mart. A Wal-Mart employee noticed him picking up merchandise and acting suspiciously, according to a state attorney's news release. The employee approached Hutto after he left the store without paying, and Hutto threatened the employee with violence.
Hutto escaped but Crestview police captured him shortly afterward.
The defendant — a prison releasee reoffender and habitual felony offender — will not be eligible for parole and will serve almost 28 years in prison.
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