COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – The last of the three defendants in a Council Bluffs slaying has pleaded guilty. The Daily Nonpareil reports 20-year-old Ben Lein pleaded guilty to reduced charges Monday: two counts of robbery and two of criminal mischief. He’d previously been charged with murder among other crimes. He was sentenced to 12 to 20 years in prison.
Lein, Markis Davis and Wesley Correa-Carmenaty were charged with the slaying of Anthony Walker during a botched robbery in March 2016. Correa-Carmenaty is set to be sentenced May 1 after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, attempted murder and two counts of robbery. Davis pleaded guilty in November to robbery and was sentenced to 25 years.