A man already in jail for a string of purse-snatching thefts in Ohio pleaded guilty to robbing a video lottery parlor in Hancock County.

On Thursday, Richard Barnett admitted to robbing the Hillbilly Café in Chester at gunpoint in January 2012.

The plea bargain, approved in Hancock County Circuit Court, sentences him to 10 years for the armed robbery in Hancock County, but with good behavior, Barnett could cut that sentence in half.

Hancock County Prosecutor Jim Davis said the manager of the café saw a man come into the café and asked her questions that made her suspicious.

Later, Barnett entered the café again, dressed in the same clothes, but wearing a ski mask and holding a handgun. The manager told Barnett she wasn't going to give him any money and he struck her with a gun.

Davis said, "He reached into the cash drawer. He said he wanted the rest of the money. She said no, and they scuffled."

The robbery at the Hillbilly Café was the last theft Barnett and his wife, Brenda Boyer, committed. After the two fled, they were caught that same month in Virginia.

Judge Larry Starcher said Barnett blamed drugs and alcohol for getting him into trouble.

Barnett is already serving a sentence of about six years for the purse-snatching thefts in Ohio.

According to the plea deal, it is possible that Barnett could be released on both the Ohio and West Virginia sentences around the same time.