Here's a link to his incarceration details. Real name Mouise Pouncey, age 63. It appears he is still alive, serving a 40 year sentence and will have a parole hearing in a few months.
https://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=03774653
None of the articles I read stated that he cut off a woman's finger (which was the pool room gossip). I read that he and an accomplice followed elderly women from affluent neighborhoods and jumped them (often brutally) , usually in their garages, pulling off their jewelry and wedding rings.
Here's one article with a lot of detail:
http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/b...icted-in-string-of-area-robberies-9745545.php
Jeweler convicted in string of area robberies
By: ANNE MARIE KILDAY, Staff Writer
Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Nearly 10 years ago, an employee of River Oaks Jewelry began to suspect her boss was selling diamond wedding rings stolen from elderly women who had been brutally attacked in a series of highly publicized armed robberies.
The woman confronted Kenneth Roberts, owner of the store at 2607 Richmond Avenue. He ignored her concerns.
Roberts, 64, was convicted last week in federal court of conspiring to and laundering the proceeds of armed robberies, which took place between 1993 and 1998.
The employee testified in court that the two men who presented themselves with diamonds for sale appeared suspicious, said Angie Herrera, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorneys office in Houston.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Lewis, who headed the prosecution team, argued to the jury that if Roberts had heeded his employees advice, many of the robberies might have been prevented, and many of the victims would have been saved from the brutal attacks. During the three-week trial, the jury heard about the string of robberies. Many Houston women stopped wearing their jewelry in public places during the string of robberies
The victims were women, ranging in age from 61 to 88, whose diamond wedding rings were stolen. Many of the women were brutally attacked and some suffered broken bones, police said. About 40 women were followed home from department stores or grocery stores by two men later convicted of armed robbery.
Mouise Pouncey, 47, pleaded guilty to one count of armed robbery in the 184th State District Court in March 1999. He is currently serving a 40-year sentence in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Carlton Keith Jackson, 46, was convicted of armed robbery in the 337th State District Court and was sentenced to 20 years. He is currently serving a 19-year sentence in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for the distribution of crack cocaine.
Jacksons wife, Lisa Renee Jackson, was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced in 1999 to 40 years in connection with the robberies.
A former employee of the Houston municipal court, Lisa Jackson allegedly used a computer at work to look up addresses of elderly women so that her husband could rob them. Authorities said the pair attacked the victims in their garages.
They then took the diamonds to Roberts. He purchased some of the stolen diamonds and sold them, giving Pouncey and Jackson a share of the proceeds. The rings had an estimated value of $1 million. The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations and the Houston Police Department worked together in the investigation. Roberts purchased the rings without keeping legally required records of the purchases.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal scheduled Roberts to be sentenced Aug. 7. Roberts faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $500,000 on each of the two counts.
Roberts, who was arrested in July 2002, is free on $50,000 bail. His attorney John Maunier has said he plans to appeal.
