A former corrections officer has received a 20-year prison sentence for a violent 2011 home invasion in which he and two other men beat and robbed a suburban Philadelphia business owner.
Prosecutors say 27-year-old Tyreek Styles was sentenced Thursday. A jury convicted the Philadelphia man in September 2014 of conspiracy, robbery and using a firearm during a violent crime.
Prosecutors say Styles and two other men waited for an Upper Darby business owner to come home in December 2011 and brutally beat him in his front yard. The men made their way into the home and forced the victim's family to give them money at gunpoint.
Styles was a corrections officer at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia at the time of the robbery.
Former Corrections Officer Gets 20-Year Sentence for Robbery
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