LEVY COUNTY, FL (352today.com) – The Levy County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) can close the case file on a botched home invasion robbery that ended in the death of one of the people involved in plotting the crime.
This week, the sheriff’s office announced that the last of the four surviving assailants accepted a plea deal. That final defendant, 25-year-old Theriyus Leequina Banks of Gainesville, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
What went down
LCSO says five people conspired to rob a home in Rosewood in August of 2022.
The plan failed when they came face-to-face with the armed homeowner. It turned into a shootout, resulting in one of the perpetrators being shot.
The homeowner was not hurt.
The five took off and ultimately dropped off their injured friend at the Kanapaha Emergency Room Center on Archer Road where he died.
The sheriff’s office says three of the four surviving suspects negotiated plea agreements earlier this year.
- Jerry Cordel Clanton, 31, of Gainesville sentenced to 15 years
- Ocean Carey Dunn, 25, of Morriston sentenced to 10 years
- Aonesty Torriana Smith, 23, of Gainesville sentenced to 10 years
LCSO says it partnered with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on this investigation.
“Quick action and exceptional investigative efforts resulted in the quick apprehension of these four dangerous individuals which has now resulted on long incarceration terms for each of them,” the sheriff’s office said in a release.