Serial South Bay robber gets seven years in prison
It's been a crazy week here inside the Court Machine, so I'm a little late updating some of my cases. I just learned about this one:
A robbery suspect who holed up in his San Pedro home for four hours will spend seven years in prison, according to prosecutors. Kevin Thomas St. Pierre, 38, pleaded no contest to 22 counts of robbery, attempted robbery and commercial burglary in Torrance Superior Court on Nov. 13, said Deputy District Attorney Don Syn.
St. Pierre made his plea without a deal from prosecutors, allowing a judge to decide what his punishment should be. He was believed responsible for holdups or attempted holdups at businesses in San Pedro, Torrance, Redondo Beach and Lomita.
Los Angeles police chased St. Pierre following a robbery in Lomita on Sept. 2. He fled to his apartment in the 900 block of West 30th Street and refused to come out. He finally surrendered after a special weapons team surrounded his home.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
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