Whitey Ford
11-02-2019, 02:13 AM
Singer Wayne Newton says he sleeps with a gun after 'serial burglar' robbed his Vegas home TWICE, threatening his wife and injuring his two dogs - as defiant thief is given 22 years in prison
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Weslie Hosea Martin, 22, was given a minimum 22-year prison sentence for burglarizing Newton's home on June 3 and 13, 2018, including once when the 77-year-old 'Danke Schoen' singer, his wife and their teenage daughter walked in on the crime in progress.
Newton said his wife Kathleen went into 'hysterics', crying out for him to shoot the intruders, who were wearing bandanas, and that they fled after the singer fired off a single round from a gun.
The alleged burglar was convicted in June on 11 felony counts, including home invasion, in connection with the burglaries of Newton's home near South Lamb Boulevard and Oquendo Road, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
District Judge Michael Villani sentenced Martin on Tuesday to serve a minimum of 22 years and maximum of 64 years in prison. Martin, representing himself, maintained he was innocent.
But the burglars, who 10 days later apparently tried to pry open a safe in Newton's dressing room, had bandanas on their faces and Ewing told jurors during his client's trial that only a vague video image of someone with a similar body shape and size on the Newton home stairway might tie Martin to the break-in the Newtons interrupted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7630345/Singer-Wayne-Newton-says-sleeps-gun-serial-burglar-robbed-Vegas-home-TWICE.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
https://i.imgur.com/zz9z3by.jpg
Weslie Hosea Martin, 22, was given a minimum 22-year prison sentence for burglarizing Newton's home on June 3 and 13, 2018, including once when the 77-year-old 'Danke Schoen' singer, his wife and their teenage daughter walked in on the crime in progress.
Newton said his wife Kathleen went into 'hysterics', crying out for him to shoot the intruders, who were wearing bandanas, and that they fled after the singer fired off a single round from a gun.
The alleged burglar was convicted in June on 11 felony counts, including home invasion, in connection with the burglaries of Newton's home near South Lamb Boulevard and Oquendo Road, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
District Judge Michael Villani sentenced Martin on Tuesday to serve a minimum of 22 years and maximum of 64 years in prison. Martin, representing himself, maintained he was innocent.
But the burglars, who 10 days later apparently tried to pry open a safe in Newton's dressing room, had bandanas on their faces and Ewing told jurors during his client's trial that only a vague video image of someone with a similar body shape and size on the Newton home stairway might tie Martin to the break-in the Newtons interrupted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7630345/Singer-Wayne-Newton-says-sleeps-gun-serial-burglar-robbed-Vegas-home-TWICE.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490