PANAMA CITY — A Callaway man who tried to rip off a lottery winner was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday.
Kelvin Jaquez Mack, 27, was convicted in February of breaking into Linda Wilson’s home in August 2012 with Rossi Armstead and demanding Wilson’s lottery winnings at gunpoint. Wilson recently had won $90,000 playing Fantasy 5, but rather than keeping the cash under her bed, she deposited the money in a bank.
That fact apparently came as a surprise to Armstead, Mack and Mytrice Walker, who orchestrated the attempted robbery of her cousin and drove the two men to Wilson’s home. They woke up Wilson and her daughter at gunpoint, and when they realized the money was in the bank, they drove Wilson’s daughter to several ATMs.
By the end of the crime, they netted a cool $150 between the three.
Police confronted Walker, who cooperated by identifying Mack and Armstead and admitting her role. She pleaded to principal to home invasion robbery and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Armstead, who was convicted in July of principal to home invasion robbery with a firearm, principal to kidnapping and principal to grand theft, was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison followed by 10 years probation.
Mack will serve five years on probation when his prison term is over.