CLEARFIELD – A Brookville man accused of invading an elderly couple’s home pleaded guilty during plea and sentencing court in Clearfield County.
Nathan R. Bowser, 24, 216 Jefferson St., Brookville, pleaded guilty to robbery, criminal conspiracy/robbery and burglary in one case and burglary and criminal conspiracy/burglary in a second case.
He was sentenced to 18 months to seven years in state prison. He was fined $5 plus costs and he must pay restitution of $390.
The home invasion charges stem from an incident Nov. 11 when Bowser and Jacquelynn N. Primm, 21, 523 South Ave., DuBois broke into a DuBois home. In September they had burglarized the same residence.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, the elderly victim awoke in the early morning hours to find two people standing in her bedroom. They were both wearing dark hoodies and had scarves on their faces.
The taller, male actor demanded money as he displayed a handgun. She gave them $30 in cash from her purse. The other actor, a female, ordered the male to take her purse. The man then took possession of a phone from the purse. She told them she recognized their voices, but the man told her she did not know them. They then fled the home.
The victim yelled for her husband who was asleep in the other room, but he did not hear her. The phone line was disabled so she was unable to immediately call for help.
An officer discovered that the basement door was ajar. It had fresh pry marks and scuff marks from being kicked.
When the victim spoke to police, she told them she recognized the man’s voice as Bowser’s and the female’s voice as Primm’s. She was familiar with both because they had worked around her residence many times.
Later it was reported that both Bowser and Primm had broken into the same home in September. A witness told police that she saw the two leave the residence through a basement door.
The victims were not home at the time. The witness spoke to the victim who said things were pushed away from the door and the glass from a window had been broken. The victim discovered on Nov. 8 that documents located inside a strong box were missing.
Primm was sentenced in April to one to three years in state prison after she pleaded guilty to burglary, criminal conspiracy/burglary and criminal conspiracy/robbery in the home invasion case and burglary in the September case. Her sentence will run consecutive to a probation violation sentence she received in March for six months to two years in state prison.