Borden man gets 3 years for violent home invasion

A 20-year-old man from Borden, P.E.I., was sentenced to three and half years in prison Friday for his role in a violent home invasion.

Dustin Joseph Leo Noonan was sentenced in a Summerside courtroomafter pleading guilty to charges of breaking and enter to commit a robbery and wearing a mask to commit an indictable offence.

According to investigators, just before midnight on August 17 last year, seven people wearing masks and carrying various weapons, including a Taser and a knife, entered a home in Albany.

The court heard today that the intruders used the Taser on a man in his 20s and then started kicking and punching him in the head.

The victim was hospitalized for a broken nose, and for cuts and bruises to his face.

According to facts presented in court the assailants tried to get into a bedroom, but a man and a woman inside resisted using a baseball bat.

Eventually the thieves left with a smartphone and about $1,000.

Both the assailants and the victim were known to deal drugs,according to police.

The court heard text messages recovered by police determined that Noonan was the principal attacker and that a total of nine people planned and executed the assault.

The eight others accusedwill appear in court on March 12 to enter their pleas on the charges theyface.