A 57-year-old grandmother was sentenced to prison late after she allegedly stole a loaded .22 caliber side arm from a Robert Emmet Sherwood Township, Mich. residence. She also stole a kitty filled with coins in the Dec. 22, 2020 nursing home break-in, police said.
Genoa Sigerfoos, who latterly lived in Indiana, admitted she took the items to wrap up gambling debts.
She stony-broke the house’s face window to grab the items, constabulary said. The incident took property after she stopped at an unnamed casino.
She at present faces a condemn of 'tween 19 months to 15 years. She pled hangdog to second-degree rest home invasion.
Branch County Chicago Circuit Court Judge Bill O’Grady questioned Sigerfoos inwards a recent tribunal appearance.
Normally we don’t make 50-plus twelvemonth ladies sitting here on rest home encroachment charges,” O’Grady told her, according to the Daily Reporter, a Greenfield, Ind. newspaper.
Prosecutor Demands Prison Time
Michigan Prosecutor Zack Stempien asked the jurist that she be sentenced to prison.
Certainly, i opine it’s clip in our community that we starting to direct a message… It’s not OK to fall apart into people’s homes. It’s non OK to steal. It does not belong to you,” Stempien said inward court, the Daily Reporter reported.
Previously, she was convicted for trey felonies related to to possession of trash (meth), the newspaper publisher said. She was also convicted on quartet misdemeanors, the news report adds. Her do drugs arrests went endorse as far as 20 years.
“I’ve been neat since 2019,” Sigerfoos told the judge. “I’m changing my life.”
Previously, she spent 210 years slow bars. She has a second abode inwards Ohio.
Problem Gambler Robberies
In an unrelated lawcourt case, in April a UT piece was sentenced to septenary years’ incarceration after the robberies of two deferred payment unions. He was described as having serious gaming habituation and faced mounting gaming losses, according to recent news reports.
On April 26, UT federal Judge Ted Jimmy Stewart sentenced Kevin Dean Rasband, 36, of Layton, Utah, for 2 counts of camber robbery and ace look of brandishing a small-arm during a law-breaking of violence, the Standard-Examiner, a Utah newspaper, reported. The credit entry unions are located inwards Kaysville and Farmington, Utah.
Under a deal, Rasband entered a shamed plea and prosecutors dropped a sec small-arm charge. He must also pay off $23,300 inward restitution. After his button from prison, he testament follow placed under oversight for ternion years.
Within leash years, he lost more than $100,000 piece gambling, the written report added. He also was suicidal, the newsprint reported. His married woman convinced him to turning himself into authorities.
Before his arrest, Rasband was an intragroup auditor for the Miles Dewey Davis Jr. County Clerk-Auditor’s Office. He used a piece when robbing the deferred payment unions, authorities said.