An Argos man pled guilty to three felony charges and was sentenced to a total of 9 years in jail in Marshall County Superior Court 1 on Wednesday.
Judge Robert O. Bowen presided over the case and 54-year-old Vincent Carnegie was represented by his attorney Tom Black while Marshall County Prosecutor Nelson Chipman and Chief Deputy Prosecutor Tami Napier represented the State of Indiana.
According to Napier, Carnegie’s case first came to light in May of 2017 after he reportedly broke into and entered his former girlfriend’s home in the 11,000 block of Michigan Road in Plymouth and forcibly drove her to Argos.The victim apparently escaped and got the attention of a deputy with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department.
Police eventually located Carnegie hiding in a tree line at a location on King Road. Carnegie was reportedly in the possession of a handgun and threatening to kill himself and purportedly pointed the gun at police. When police attempted to subdue Carnegie, the gun discharged and he shot himself. He was briefly hospitalized before being lodged in the Marshall County Jail.
Deputy Prosecutor Napier reports that Carnegie had an unrelated, pending criminal charge from 2015 at the time of this incident. In the 2015 matter, he allegedly stole an RV from Newmar Corp. in Nappanee. The estimated value of the vehicle was $500,000.
In court on Wednesday, Carnegie pled guilty to theft as a Level 5 Felony and was sentenced to 3 years to be executed in the Indiana Department of Correction for the RV case. He also pled guilty to the Level 4 Felony of burglary and the Level 6 Felony of resisting law enforcement, receiving a 6-year sentence and a 1-year sentence respectively.
Judge Bowen sentenced Carnegie with the three felony charges, with the kidnapping, auto theft, pointing a firearm and battery charges dismissed.
Carnegie will serve a total of 9 years in prison; with the burglary and theft charges running consecutively and the resisting law enforcement charge running concurrently to the burglary charge.
Napier stated that Carnegie will have to serve 75 percent of his sentence. She reported that he has already been incarcerated for 321 days and those days will be applied to his time under Indiana law.
Additionally, Carnegie was charged a $1 fine and costs for each case and will not serve probation upon his release. A $3,000 cash bond posted relating to the theft of the RV will be applied to his past-due child support obligation as the Newmar Corporation was reimbursed by insurance.
