Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong
Posted on 12/03/2008 6:47:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ERIE, Pa. – A man who took part in a bizarre bank robbery plot that turned deadly when a bomb affixed to the neck of a pizza deliveryman exploded was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison Wednesday.
Kenneth Barnes was "intimately involved" in the plot and not just a minor player, U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin said. Barnes suggested bomb parts, provided magazine articles about bomb making and was present when the bomb was put on Brian Wells before he robbed a bank in 2003, McLaughlin said.
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I remember reading about this case ... I don’t think that pizza delivery guy survived.
That *could* be what the writer was referring to when he said the crime "turned deadly."
Then too, what are the odds of surviving the explosion of a bomb affixed to your neck?
He didn’t.
Uh .. not good!
a strange case for sure..
more to come prosecution-wise as well..
the alleged female mastermind is trying to skate by getting declared mentally incompetent problems, the perp sentenced today will testify against her..
she whacked a previous boyfriend for testifying aganst her in a scheme to rob a bank and use the money to whack her wealthy father off over an inheritance dispute, she plead guilty but mentally ill or such. more at the link to the article
I saw the video not realizing it was unedited.
45 years is way too light for this guy.
If the perps called in a phony pizza delivery to entice the poor guy to a remote location where they clamped the bomb on him, how could he have been in on the plot? This is one nasty and bizzare case.
I think that the prosecutors are worried about being blamed for the death of the pizza guy, so they have accused him of being a perpetrator instead of a victim.
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong
I saw that story on TV and they showed this one guy who was involved, he has since died. Quick as I saw him I said I know that guy from somewhere. I thought about it for several days and realized, he was pictured in a book I have, titled, “The 50 dollar knife shop.” It shows the author doing a demonstration of forging a knife blade, and sure ‘nuff, there stands that guy watching. He was the guy who had made the bizarre looking home made shot gun that looked like a walking stick?
Life without parole would have been more fitting.
Yeah. On page 140 there is a picture of Wayne Goddard forging a blade. There is a group of men watching. 4 men and 1 woman standing. the guy who is 3rd from left, wearing a white cap, looks just like the fellow who made the shotgun walking cane that was used in the scheme.
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