Man sentenced to 20 years for Lake Forest home invasion

BAY MINETTE, Alabama 

Kenneth Dewight Smith

A Daphne man facing 28 counts including robbery, kidnapping and burglary for his role in the invasion of a Lake Forest home where a drug party was going on will spend 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery.
Kenneth Dewight Smith, 20, who had been slated for trial this week, entered his plea Thursday in Baldwin County Circuit Court in Bay Minette, according to court documents. His sentencing was subject to enhancement because of the use of a firearm, records show.
In exchange for the plea to one count of first-degree robbery, the remaining charges were not prosecuted, records show.
He received credit for one year and two months of jail time served.
Smith was one of five men accused of bursting in on a party at a home in Daphne’s Lake Forest community in June 2010. At the party, people ranging in age from about 17 to about 23 were using "Molly," a form of Ecstasy, police have said.
Smith, Ryan Restrepo, 21; Jeffrey Lee Lahmann Jr., 20; John David Reid, 19; and an unidentified fifth suspect rounded up more than a dozen victims and robbed them at gunpoint, according to police reports. Several items were also taken from the home, police said.
Several suspects carried rifles and pistols, and the fifth suspect wore a mask, according to police.
Last month, Restrepo, a Spanish Fort resident who faced similar charges, also pleaded guilty to one count of robbery and was ordered to serve three years of a 20-year sentence, and five years of supervised probation. He must also spend at least one year in a treatment facility.
In January, Reid pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to court records.
Lahmann is scheduled to appear in court this week to enter a plea, court records show.