Man sentenced in home invasions

Kim Smith

Tuesday, April 17, 2001 | 11:01 a.m.

One of three men implicated in a series of home invasions was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 to 16 years in prison as the result of a plea agreement.

District Judge John McGroarty sentenced Nahum Joshua Brown, 24, to an additional year and a half to six years in a forgery case, but it will be served at the same time as the robbery sentence.

Prosecutors allege that Brown, Draketonial Macon, 31, and Tyrone Walker, 35, committed a series of home invasion robberies between Sept. 29 and Dec. 9, 1999.

Macon and Walker have also entered plea agreements and are awaiting sentencing. A fourth man, Edward Bonsor, was scheduled to be sentenced today for selling items stolen in the home invasions.

In the first incident on Sept. 29, prosecutors say, three men entered a home on Cochise Lane, near Eastern Avenue and Desert Inn Road, through an unlocked sliding glass door and bound a 48-year-old woman who was home alone. Police say they stole money, a laptop computer, jewelry and other items.

Two weeks later two men confronted a 40-year-old man as he drove into his driveway on Huntington Hills Drive, north of Vegas Drive. They forced the man inside his home, bound him, his wife and his 13-year-old nephew, then loaded the victim's pickup with his wide-screen TV, jewelry, video games, stereo and computers.

They then forced the three victims into the woman's car, drove them to an ATM machine, forced them to withdraw some money and later dropped the victims off after duct-taping them again, prosecutors say.

Three days later a 70-year-old man and his 67-year-old wife were bound and robbed after three men walked through an unlocked sliding glass door at their home on Painted Dunes Drive, near Lone Mountain Road and Buffalo Drive.

The last invasion occurred Dec. 8, when three men entered an open window of a home on Canyon Cove Way, near Alexander Road and Rainbow Boulevard.