JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 46-year-old Jacksonville man was convicted Thursday afternoon for robbing a Westside hotel in September 2011.
Johnny Walthour and co-defendant LaTroy Montgomery held up the Hospitality Inn on 103rd Street. The two men were wearing masks and were armed with handguns when they walked into the hotel.
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Walthour forced the hotel's security guard to the floor and then took money from the clerk. Walthour and Montgomery then fled the area.
Walthour was later arrested on a violation of probation for a 1996 robbery conviction. The hotel armed robbery happened within three years of Walthour being released from prison on the 1996 charge.
"Due to the defendant's criminal history, he now faces a mandatory life in prison sentence," said Assistant State Attorney Brittany Mauerberger.
Montgomery's armed robbery trial is pending. Walthour will be sentenced the week of Feb. 19.