PANAMA CITY -- Jurors convicted a 27-year-old Callaway man whose plan to rob a lottery winner was foiled when the victim told him she kept her money in the bank, not in her home, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
Kelvin Jaquez Mack faces up to life in prison when Judge Michael Overstreet sentences him for armed home invasion, false imprisonment, grand theft auto and principal to armed home invasion. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 15.
Mack and Rossi Armstead, who was convicted on similar charges in July, broke into Linda Marie Wilson’s home on Aug. 31, 2012. Wilson had recently won $90,000 in a lottery, and her cousin Mytrice Walker enlisted Mack and Armstead to rob her.
Wilson woke up on her couch to a masked gunman tapping her shoulder and demanding money while the other gunman brought her teenaged daughter from her bedroom.
When Wilson explained that her money was in the bank, Mack drove the daughter to several ATMs unsuccessfully trying to withdraw money. They eventually gave up and left the house with $150.
Walker identified Mack and Armstead, and she was sentenced to six years in prison after she entered a plea to principal to home invasion robbery.
Armstead also could be sentenced to life in prison. Judge James Fensom is scheduled to sentence him March 3.