Published: October 26, 2009 06:02 pm      

Local man pleads guilty in robbery case

Somerset — The last of three people involved in an April home invasion pleaded guilty to related charges last week in circuit court.

According to information provided by Commonwealth’s Attorney Eddy F. Montgomery’s office, Kyle Wright, Jr., 20, of Somerset pleaded guilty to one count of complicity to second-degree robbery Thursday in Pulaski Circuit Court before Judge David Tapp.

That charge stems from an April incident in which Wright, David Danny Vance and Eric Gilmore forced their way into a home on Ringgold Road after Gilmore told the homeowner that she’d just argued with her boyfriend — identified as Vance — and needed assistance.

Gilmore and Vance have both pleaded guilty to charges related to that incident.

Montgomery recom-mended 10 years in prison for Wright.

Wright was also on pretrial diversion for second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, according to Montgomery, bringing two additional years to Wright’s sentence, bringing the sentence to 12 years.

Tapp set final sentencing for November 24.

Gilmore, 21, also appeared in court Thursday and was sentenced to 15 years in prison for one count of facilitation to first-degree robbery, one count of facilitation to manufacture methamphetamine and one count of complicity to first-degree burglary.

Along with being connected with the Ringgold Road robbery, according to Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney David L. Dalton, Gilmore was connected by the Lake Cumberland Area Drug Task Force to a manufacture of methamphetamine operation involving several other defendants.

• Sebastian Walker, 48, of Somerset pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and was sentenced to one year in prison.

According to Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeremy Bartley, in April 2009, Walker was arrested for violation of an EPO/DVO. At that time, the Somerset Police Department found a loaded 9mm handgun in his vehicle. Walker had a prior felony conviction for burglary in 1996.

• Robert Lee Briscoe, 55, of Somerset pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of felony fleeing or evading police.

According to Montgomery, in May 2008, Briscoe fled the Pulaski Circuit Courtroom following his sentencing to 10 years imprisonment.

Briscoe was later apprehended outside of Jerry’s Barber Shop on Ogden Street by the Somerset Police Department.

Montgomery recom-mended, and Judge Tapp handed down, a one year prison sentence.