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. Lynch had been released just six months earlier from 17 years in prison on a theft …
Jean Whitney
2:28 am on Monday, May 28, 2012
Some say time in prison is graduate school for crime. (Of course under U.S. law, we are innocent until proven guilty.) more ›