Cape Coral man sentenced for 2016 drug-fueled crime spree

CAPE CORAL, Fla. A 40-year-old man was sentenced to 91.5 months in prison for a 2016 drug-fueled crime spree, the state attorney’s office said.

Brian Manolo Hernandez-Vargas, of Cape Coral, burglarized a friend’s home and stole family heirlooms and robbed a grocery store twice in the span of 48 hours, the state attorney’s office said. Hernandez-Vargas rushed two separate clerks at the cash register and stole money.

The clerks in both burglaries sustained non-life threatening injuries, the state attorney’s office said. Hernandez-Vargas then burglarized the home of another friend.

All of the crimes happened within a 16-day period in Cape Coral, the state attorney’s office said.

Hernandez-Vargas was charged with robbery by sudden snatching, robbery with a weapon, battery on a person 65 or older, resisting an officer without violence, two counts of burglary of a dwelling and two counts of grand theft.

Hernandez-Vargas was also sentenced to 60 months of probation after his prison sentence, the state attorney’s office said.