Video: Man Sentenced In Noxubee County Home Invasion

NOXUBEE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – The man found guilty of attacking and robbing an elderly Noxubee couple in their home will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Nathaniel McKeithan, 28, was sentenced in Noxubee County Circuit Court Friday morning to twenty-six years each on two counts of robbery and twenty years on one count of burglary.

He was found guilty Wednesday of forcing his way into Richard and Inez Barge’s home, attacking and robbing them in June of last year.

McKeithan will also serve additional time for violating a federal probation on a previous bank robbery conviction.

He will serve the terms consecutively, a total of seventy-five years.