Feds Seek 17-Year Sentence in 2013 Robbery and Kidnapping

One of three men who pleaded guilty to being in involved in a 2013 violent kidnapping in Meriden and jewelry store robbery in Fairfield will be sentenced on Friday.

Federal prosecutors are calling for a sentence of at least 17 years in prison for William Davis, 27, of Allentown, Pennsylvania at the hearing in Hartford.

Authorities said armed robbers broke into an apartment on Gravel Street in Meriden in April 2013 and bound and blindfolded four people.

Two of the robbers then drove two victims to Lenox Jewelers in Fairfield, where the victims worked.

Prosecutors said the robbers stole $4 million in jewelry and watches.

Davis pleaded guilty in December. His attorney has suggested a 10-year prison sentence.

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Two of the four other defendants in the case have pleaded guilty but have not been sentenced and two are still awaiting trial.

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