A Mesquite man who admitted to taking part in a string of violent home-invasion robberies is going to federal prison for 25 years.
Tony Sullivan, age 28, of Mesquite pleaded "guilty" to several charges including conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery and conspiracy to kidnap.
Prosecutors say he was part of a gang that targeted donut shop owners across the Dallas-Fort Worth area for robberies. They say the group would break into the store owners' homes, beat them with baseball bats, restrain them and threaten their victims at gun-point during the robberies. There were a string of similar cases between April and December of 2019.
Investigators used surveillance video and cell phone data to identify Sullivan as a member of the group.
"Sullivan has been justly punished for subjecting innocent victims to his spree of violence between April 2019 and August 2019," said U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs of the Eastern District of Texas. "Today’s sentence sends a powerful message to those who use violence and fear to carry out their crimes."
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