NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 54-year-old man already serving two 20 years-to-life sentences in prison was sentenced to an additional eight years on Tuesday for organizing a home-invasion robbery crew targeting Chinese American victims in Queens, Long Island and New York City from behind bars.
His four co-conspirators on the outside all pleaded guilty and received sentences ranging from seven to 19 years depending on their charges.
Lamonte Johnson, the already-imprisoned leader of the crew, met Shi Zhen Lin, 31, in prison and connected him with his half-brother John Martin, 50, when Lin was released in March 2019.
Martin recruited Corey Mobley, 52, and Brandon Daniels, 28, to the robbery crew.
Lin would identify Chinese American targets, and the group would break in and rob their homes.
During one robbery in Little Neck, Queens, Mobley and Daniels held a group of women and children at gunpoint and sexually assaulted one of the victims.
A Brooklyn federal jury convicted Johnson of conspiracy to commit robbery and using force and threats in furtherance of robbery in May.
He was already serving two 20 years-to-life prison sentences for a 1986 double homicide when he was tried.
“Lamonte Johnson was not deterred by prison walls from organizing armed home-invasion robberies, but today’s sentence ensures he has been held accountable for these vicious crimes, and that there is justice for his victims,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace.
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