A Hyde Park man with a significant history of robbery will spend seven years in prison for robbing a neighborhood bank of about $13,600 with just a BB gun.

Paul Whooten, 59, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to one count of armed bank robbery back in January and on Wednesday was sentenced to seven years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release.

“Give me all your money,” Whooten allegedly told a Hyde Park Rockland Trust Bank four days before Christmas in 2019. He carried what appeared to be an assault-style rifle and was decked out in a distinctive outfit of a long, cark coat over a yellow and black reflective jacket with a bright yellow hood, as well as sunglasses, a black knit cap, a mask and gloves.

Whooten walked out of the bank with $13,603 from the till. A Boston Police officer stationed inside the bank broadcasted Whooten’s description and the direction he fled, and he was soon — mere “minutes later” according to the defense’s sentencing memo — found by another officer only a little ways outside of the bank in the 1000-block of Truman Parkway.

The officer took cover behind his cruiser and told Whooten to drop his weapon. Whooten did as he was told and dropped the weapon and the light-colored shopping bag containing the money.

“During a post-Miranda interview after his apprehension,” prosecutors wrote in their Tuesday sentencing memo, “when asked which bank was the last he had robbed, the defendant replied, ‘This one right here.’”

According to sentencing memos, Whooten has since 1999 served close to two decades in prison, both state and federal, for robbery convictions.

His defense attorney, arguing for a shorter sentence of 70 months — or five years and 10 months — that Whooten conducted the robbery under the influence of benzodiazepines and “was struggling tremendously in the days and weeks leading up to the robbery due to a combination of chronic mental health problems and related drug abuse.”

“These have been the root causes of most, if not all, of his criminal history and they have never been adequately addressed through treatment,” lawyer Oscar Cruz, Jr., of the Boston Federal Public Defender office, wrote.

“It is only now, after years of trial and error, that he has a clear-eyed understanding of why he has acted in the manner he has in the past. He has a sober appreciation of the harm he has caused in committing this robbery. He truly regrets his actions and is now able to see his past … from a different perspective,” he continued.