Repeat offender to spend 25 years in prison following burglary conviction

Quentin Woods/Source: Pike County Jail

A man in Pike County has been sentenced following his burglary conviction earlier this year.

Pike County District Attorney James Tarbox tells Action 8 News that Quentin Woods will spend 25 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of 2nd degree Burglary on August 13.

Tarbox says Woods is a multi-time convicted felon with prior violent felony convictions.

Tarbox says on March 13, 2023, Woods broke into a window of a home and entered in the kitchen.

Upon hearing the window being broken, the victim made her way into the kitchen and found the Woods.

The victim and a friend who was at home with the victim were able to hold Woods at gunpoint and call for law enforcement. Law enforcement arrived a short time later and Woods was arrested.

The State argued that due to his prior convictions, the voluntary sentencing guidelines should not apply and that Judge Henry “Sonny” Reagan should sentence Woods under the Habitual Felony Offender Act.

Under the Habitual Felony Offender Act, the minimum sentence available to the court would be twenty years.