North Carolina man going to prison for Yonkers home invasion

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WHITE PLAINS – After a three-week jury trial in Westchester County Court, a 50-year-old North Carolina man was found guilty on Tuesday of several felony charges stemming from a 2018 home invasion in Yonkers.

Confessor Soto of Fayetville, NC was convicted of assault, two counts of burglary, attempted robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon.  All of the charges are considered violent felonies under state law. 

The defendant was acquitted of attempted murder and attempted Assault in the First Degree. The defendant, according to Westchester County DA Miriam Rocah, faces a sentence ranging from a minimum of five years in state prison to a maximum of 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on December 2, 2022.  

On April 23, 2018, at approximately 7:30 a.m., Soto entered the backdoor of a  residence on Leighton Avenue in Yonkers armed with a semi-automatic handgun and zip ties and restrained the 82-year-old homeowner.

Disguising his face with sunglasses and a  bandana, Soto forced the homeowner into the bedroom of the homeowner’s 54- year-old daughter, who then woke to the defendant demanding money at gunpoint.

When the daughter stated she had no money, the defendant fired his gun at her, grazing the top of her head. The daughter escaped the home screaming for help and a good Samaritan called the police. Mr. Soto fled to the Bronx, where he left his clothes and gun in the vestibule of an apartment building on South Broadway.  

Soto was apprehended in Fayetteville, North Carolina on April 30, 2019, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, following a joint investigation between the Yonkers Police Department, the District Attorney’s Office, the Westchester County Department of Public  Safety, and FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force. The Westchester County Department of Public Safety assisted Yonkers Police Department with the arrest.




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