The story of a string of robberies in Chapel Hill that was capped off by a long-distance police chase at the end of March came to a close in Marshall County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

Charles Franklin Oricks, Jr., age 40, reached a plea agreement with the state that will see him serve a total effective term of 33 years in state custody.

On March 19 of this year, Oricks took a bank deposit bag containing more than $1,000 from office of the Shell station on Horton Highway in Chapel Hill.

On March 23, he broke a window out of the neighboring Valero convenience store after business hours and took another substantial bank deposit.

At closing time on March 30, he returned to the Shell station, wearing a wig as a disguise, and snatched approximately $320 from the cash register till at closing time.

The cashier recognized Orick, who used to work at the store, and described the truck in which he fled the scene. Chapel Hill police officers and Marshall County deputies pursued Oricks through the county at high rates of speed to I-840.

He then merged onto I-65 southbound, eluding efforts by both Williamson and Maury County deputies to deploy spike strips on the interstate to stop him.

He exited the interstate at exit 22 and lost pursuers in Pulaski after driving off road within the city.

He was arrested later in Maury County where he also had pending charges for theft, relating to electronics repair work that he had not done after being paid and not returning the devices to their owners.

Currently in the Maury County Jail on those charges, Oricks pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, one count of robbery, and one count of evading arrest with risk of death in the Chapel Hill charges.

He received 12 years on each of the burglary charges to run consecutively and nine years each on the robbery and evading charges, which will run concurrently.

The minimum time to serve on the sentence is more than 18 years.

Another notable Chapel Hill area offender appeared on the docket as well.

Stephen Jones Eiland filed motions to withdraw his plea and to correct an illegal sentence.

Eiland pleaded guilty in October to a series of a car break-ins committed on a Sunday afternoon in January, 2016, among the full parking lots of attendees at the Forrest High School football banquet.

He was photographed by a student while in the act and his photo was widely distributed through the news media and on social media as well.

Eiland was arrested later by Chapel Hill Police after an unrelated traffic stop.

Charged with eight counts of auto burglary, 16 counts of theft under $500, three counts of vandalism up to $500, and one count of vandalism over $1,000, Eiland reached a 12 year plea with sentences on the various charges to run concurrently.

The prosecution presented Eiland's lengthly record in Florida, including at least 22 counts of burglary or theft from 1997, 2005 and 2011, as factors to enhance his sentence.

Eiland did not appear in court, declining to be transported from his present state institution solely for the setting of a hearing date.

A hearing on the motion was set for February in Circuit Court, giving Eiland's newly appointed legal counsel the opportunity to review the case.

Joshua R. Bivins had his bond revoked and was taken into custody during the session.

Bivins was on the docket for an arrest in May where he was charged with driving while banned as an habitual traffic offender, driving on a revoked license, simple possession and tampering with evidence.

He was free on an $18,500 bond.

Bivins was stopped by the Lewisburg Police Department while driving with a headlight burned out. He told the officer his name was Ryan Jackson but could not remember his date of birth.

Admitting his identity, Bivins was arrested for again driving while banned and charged with criminal impersonation. While being searched at the Marshall County Jail, deputies also discovered a baggie containing what was believed to be marijuana, resulting in an additional charge of introducing contraband into a penal institution. Bond for that incident was set at $13,500.

The arrest while out on bond in another case led Judge Forest Durard to revoke Bivins' bond, meaning he will stay in the Marshall County Jail, pending a hearing after the start of the year.