Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Staff report
WARREN
Anthony A. Howe, 19, of Niles and Girard, was sentenced to 13 years in prison Tuesday for breaking into a Butler Street, Niles, home Dec. 30 and assaulting the 65-year-old woman inside.
Howe pleaded guilty before Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to aggravated burglary, kidnapping, felonious assault and aggravated robbery. He could have gotten 40 years in prison, but accepted a plea agreement offered by prosecutors.
Police said Howe, also known as Alexander Howe, broke into the rear of a home on North Butler Street at 5 a.m. The woman living there woke up and attempted to shoot Howe with a gun she owned, but it didn’t fire, so Howe took it from her and beat her up, prosecutors said.
He left the house with the gun and a stolen television.
The woman, who pounded on a neighbor’s door to get help, was hospitalized for severe eye and facial injuries. She did not speak at Howe’s sentencing, nor did Howe.
Police arrested Howe in Peppertree Apartments on Robbins Avenue in Niles on Jan. 16. They also found the television and gun inside.
They recovered gloves with the victim’s blood and Howe’s DNA inside them at a residence where Howe also spent time in the 300 block of West State Street in Girard, prosecutors said.