A Minneapolis man has received a 24-year federal prison term for picking out two women in parking lots to rob at gunpoint and then stealing from another person during his spree, which targeted random victims.
Raphael Raymond Nunn, 58, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in St. Paul last week after jurors convicted him of kidnapping, bank fraud and identity theft in connection with crimes in the Twin Cities area more than two years ago.
In handing down his sentence, Judge Eric C. Tostrud said he found Nunn to be “incorrigible” and issued an especially lengthy sentence because he “posed an escalating danger to the public.”
After serving his prison time, Nunn will have five years of supervised release.
Ahead of sentencing, the prosecution asked the judge for a 27-year sentence, noting that Nunn is “a lifelong fraudster whose calculated deceit has left a wake of financial devastation spanning nearly three decades.”
Nunn’s criminal history in Minnesota includes three convictions for auto theft, two for check forgery and one for financial card fraud.
Nunn’s defense countered that its client should serve no more than 11¼ years in prison, noting that he was used as a child by his parents to deal drugs. During one drug transaction in Texas, Nunn was shot, defense attorney Charles Clippert told the court.
“His family valued a son who was a good drug dealer over a son who was a good student, good athlete or simply just stayed out of trouble,” Clippert wrote.
