A Columbus man indicted on drug charges and a South Point man indicted in connection with the armed robberies at two area pizza stores entered guilty pleas Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.

Theodore Gamble, 29, of Columbus, pleaded guilty to first-degree trafficking in crack cocaine. Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Richard Walton sentenced Gamble to four years in prison and fined him $10,000. Additionally, Gamble's driver's license was suspended for four years.

Gamble was one of four people arrested in February when Ironton Police, Lawrence County Sheriff's deputies and members of the Lawrence County Drug Task Force conducted a drug raid at a residence at 704 Vice St., Ironton. At that time, Gamble was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant. He was indicted on drug charges the following month.

Also Wednesday, Robert Erwin, one of three men arrested in connection with the armed robberies of the Deering and Aid Giovanni's, pleaded guilty to an amended indictment of two counts of first-degree complicity to aggravated robbery.

Erwin, 24, of 501 S. Ninth St., Ironton, will be sentenced July 7. Those robberies occurred in August 2003. Erwin had originally faced a firearm specification in those two incidents, but the specification was later deleted.

The gunman in those robberies, Johnathan Hudnall Jr., was sentenced to eight years in prison for his part in the crimes. A third man, Jason D. Ackerson, 23, of South Point, faces complicity to aggravated robbery charges in connection with the hold-ups.