March 20, 2009, 2:43 PM

Home invader gets 15 years

[MARTHA RIAL | Times (2007)]

After he invaded the Largo home of 82-year-old Shirley Ives, who fought him back with an ice pick two years ago, Dion Sookoo (inset) left the house with thirty bucks and a purse. Today, he left a courtroom with a 15-year prison sentence.

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