Teen pleads guilty in home invasion robbery
A Connellsville teen pleaded guilty to robbing and assaulting an elderly man and his daughter in Fayette County Court on Monday.
In exchange for his guilty plea, 18-year-old Duston Wiggins will spend six to 12 years in prison, according to the offer from District Attorney Rich Bower.
Wiggins, represented by attorney William Diffenderfer, entered guilty pleas to 19 counts, including robbery, burglary, theft, simple assault, reckless endangerment, conspiracy to commit each.
Bower told Judge Steve P. Leskinen the prosecution would drop a single count of aggravated assault.
Wiggins was accused along with 19-year-old Terry Nicholson and a third unnamed juvenile, then 14 years old, of breaking into the home of Caesar Gasperi in February 2014.
The teens held 81-year-old Gasperi and his daughter Lisa Gasperi at gun point, pistol-whipping the man and robbing him of his safe.
Nicholson pleaded guilty in December and is expected to be sentenced to 4 1/2 to 9 years in jail at a hearing on Thursday.