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PORT ST. LUCIE — Police arrested a man after they say he pointed a gun at another man and punched him “a few times” in the head, according to an affidavit released Monday.
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The victim went to drop off his two children Sunday at his ex-wife’s home in the 400 block of Southwest Paar Drive, authorities said.
The affidavit gave this account:
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
FORT PIERCE — A Jensen Beach man was found guilty late Thursday afternoon of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Fort Pierce woman at gunpoint in December 2005.
A jury of five men and one woman deliberated about five hours before reaching the verdict. Immediately after the verdict was read, 35-year-old Robert Lee Kenon was sentenced to two concurrent life prison terms.
In a trial that started Wednesday, the victim testified through a Spanish interpreter that she was walking to a store in Fort Pierce that Dec. 22 when Kenon forced her into his car at gunpoint and drove her to a beach, where he touched her breasts and other private parts and tried to have sex with her until she screamed so loudly he stopped.
Afterward, she said, he drove her back to the area where he had picked her up.
Kenon maintained his innocence even after the verdict.
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Armed robbers broke into the home of a Port St. Lucie man over the weekend, marking the second time in less than two weeks that he reported thieves broke into his home to make off with cash, police said.
The man told police he was sleeping in his home in the 3200 block of Pinto Street shortly before 1:30 a.m. when four men woke him up at gunpoint.
An elderly couple was robbed in their Martin County home at gunpoint Thursday night, when they reported that thieves wearing masks taped their mouths shut and threatened to kill them.
Robert Thacker, 87, and his 83-year-old wife, Ruth, told Martin County sheriff’s deputies that they were at their home when someone knocked at their door shortly after 8:30 p.m.
After Ruth Thacker opened the door, a man pushed her inside and demanded the couple get on the ground, according to a sheriff’s report. Two other men then came in and ordered the Thackers into a bathroom, they said.
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