Crime & Safety

Armed Home Invasion: Suspect Imprisoned On Unrelated Case

Suspect charged with 10 felonies in Chesterfield case.

A 48-year-old man charged with 10 felonies in a Chesterfield armed home-invasion in February, was taken to state prison to serve a sentence on an unrelated case July 18, according to unofficial court records online.

Richard J. Lynch was arraigned in April, in St. Louis County Court, on a Chesterfield case that includes forced entry into a townhouse at gunpoint of a man, pistol whipping the man, taking the man's wife hostage, and theft of jewelry and other valuables.

He was held on $250,000 cash-only bond. It was not immediately clear what the unrelated case was that took Lynch back to prison. Earlier, there were indications it was a violation of parole.

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Lynch had been released just six months earlier from 17 years in prison on a theft conviction, when police arrested him as the suspect in the armed home-invasion. 

Chesterfield police said Lynch was nabbed after pawn shop workers recognized jewelry from the Chesterfield home-invasion robbery.

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Lynch is scheduled Friday, August 3, for a court conference on the home invasion charges. It was unclear whether Lynch would appear, or only the lawyer.


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