SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A former Massachusetts police officer convicted of robbing a pharmacy and leading police on a 75-mile high-speed pursuit has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
Adam Bartlett was sentenced Thursday after being convicted earlier week of charges including armed robbery.
Prosecutors say the 39-year-old Bartlett entered a Chicopee pharmacy on Sept. 12, 2015, told a clerk he was armed, and demanded oxycodone pills.
The clerk handed over bottles containing dummy pills and tracking devices.
With his wife, Rebecca, who had waited in a car outside, the couple led police on a chase along the Massachusetts Turnpike that reached speeds of 100 mph before running out of gas in Framingham.
Rebecca Bartlett pleaded guilty in November.
Adam Bartlett was a Hadley officer before resigning in 2013 for personal reasons.
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