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PROVIDENCE -- A Massachusetts man today was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for a rash of Rhode Island bank and drug-store robberies.

David R. Cahill received 63 months' imprisonment from Judge Mary M. Lisi in U.S. District Court, Providence, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente's office.

Cahill, 32, was also ordered to pay a total of $71,230 restitution to robbery victims.

Cahill pleaded guilty in August to seven counts of robbery: two at banks for cash and five at drug stores, where he took oxycodone after brandishing what appeared to be a handgun, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

Prosecutor Zechariah Chafee said at the plea hearing that the government could show Cahill robbed:

* Bank of America on Bald Hill Road, Warwick on May 29 2007, where he handed a teller a threatening note and took $7,538;

* Bank of America on Washington Highway Lincoln on June 7, 2007, where he took $2,361 via a threatening note;

* Brooks Pharmacy on Mineral Spring Avenue, North Providence on June 16, 2007, where he stole oxycodone after brandishing a gun that later turned out to be a realistic looking BB pistol;

* CVS Pharmacy on Park Avenue, Cranston on June 22, 2007, where he took oxycodone at gunpoint;

* The same CVS Pharmacy on Park Avenue on December 12, 2007, where he again obtained oxycodone at gunpoint;

* CVS Pharmacy on Reservoir Avenue, Cranston, two times last year -- Jan. 6 and Feb. 12, where he took oxycodone at gunpoint.

FBI SWAT arrested Cahill at his Mendon, Mass., home after law-enforcement agencies investigated in communities where the robberies happened.

Cahill confessed to most of the robberies and evidence linked him to others, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Cahill also confessed to other robberies committed at a drug store in Bellingham, Mass., and a bank in Groton, Conn.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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