An Albrightsville man was sentenced to a long state prison term last weekin Carbon County after previously pleading guilty to robberies and theft incidents.

Kyle Scott Heim, 35, was sentenced by Judge Steven R. Serfass in four cases to serve a total of five to 10 years in a state correction institution.Heim previously pleaded to two robbery and theft counts.Heim admitted entering the Square One Market on April 11, 2016, in Kidder Township and demanding money from the clerk. He displayed a gun in his waistband in the incident. That led to one robbery count.He also admitted entering the Dollar General Store along Route 903 in Penn Forest Township on April 11, 2016, and demanding money from the clerk. The thefts occurred on March 25, 2016, when he took a utility trailer from the property of Michael Brakes in Penn Forest Township; and on Sept. 20, 2015, when he and a co-defendant took a generator from the Country Junction store along Route 209 in Towamensing Township.Heim claimed the gun used in the one robbery was not real but plastic. He also said all the crimes occurred while he was under the influence of drugs.Heim is currently an inmate in the state correctional institution at Camp Hill, serving a prison term imposed in Monroe County. Heim was charged for criminal acts in Carbon, Monroe, Northampton and Lehigh counties.Serfass also ordered Heim to get both drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, zero tolerance for drug and alcohol use, supply a DNA sample, pay court costs of about $1,000 and when released on parole render 200 hours of community service.Serfass ruled his sentence would run concurrent with the Monroe term Heim is now serving.