Robber gets 20 years for lotto caper

One of the men accused of robbing a woman in her home at gunpoint after she won $90,000 in a lottery was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

Rossi Armstead, 23, will not receive credit for good behavior during the first 10 years of his sentence for principal to home invasion robbery with a firearm, principal to kidnapping and grand theft because it was minimum mandatory sentence.

Mytrice Walker pleaded earlier this year to enlisting Armstead and Kelvin Mack to rob her cousin after she learned her cousin had won $90,000. She was sentenced to six years, and Mack is scheduled to go to trial later this year.

Armstead was convicted at trial in July of entering the woman’s house Aug. 30, 2012, as she slept. He woke her up, stuck a gun in her face and demanded her lottery winnings. When she told him she kept her money in a bank and not in the house, they forced her teenage daughter to attempt to withdraw money from several ATMs. They finally left the house with $150.