FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR BURGLARY OF HUNDRED YEAR OLD WOMAN'S HOME

San Antonio, Texas: March 18, 2010

District Attorney Susan D. Reed announced today that CHARLES DAVIS, age 48, was sentenced by Judge Pat Priest to twenty five years in prison after a Bexar County jury had found him guilty of breaking into an elderly woman’s house.

This case arose August 29th, 2007 when police where called to the residence by the woman’s neighbors. Because of the complainant’s advanced age the neighbors where keeping a watch on her and her residence. On this particular day, around five o’clock in the afternoon, the neighbor observed Davis enter the house through the back door and went to investigate. The neighbor and his brother confronted Davis inside the complainant’s home and one followed the intruder while the other called police. Davis was apprehended shortly thereafter. The Defendant had taken $15.00 from the woman’s purse. The elderly complainant was home at the time of the burglary.

Burglary of Habitation is a second degree felony punishable by confinement from two to twenty years and up to a $10,000 fine. The State proved Davis had been previously convicted of two felonies and had served time in the penitentiary. This evidence was presented to the Court and enhanced the punishment range to a minimum term of confinement of twenty five years and up to ninety nine years or life.

For more information, please contact the Chief of the White Collar Crime Division, Adriana Biggs at 210 335-2404.