'Guilty,' Jury Convicts Confessor Soto In Brutal 2018 Home Invasion

YONKERS, NY — After a three-week trial, a jury found Fayetteville, North Carolina resident Confessor Soto guilty of felony charges connected to a violent 2018 Yonkers home invasion.

On April 23, 2018, at approximately 7:30 a.m., Soto entered the back door of a home on Leighton Avenue armed with a semi-automatic handgun and zip-ties. He tied up the 82-year-old homeowner. Disguising his face with sunglasses and a bandana, Soto forced the homeowner into the bedroom of a 54-year-old daughter. The daughter woke to Soto demanding money at gunpoint. When she told him that she didn't have any money, Soto fired his gun at her, grazing the top of her head.

The daughter escaped the home screaming for help and a good Samaritan called the police. Meanwhile, Soto fled to the Bronx, where he left his clothes and gun in the vestibule of an apartment building on South Broadway.

Soto was found guilty on Wednesday, of assault in the second degree, two counts of burglary in the first degree, attempted robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, all violent felonies.

The 50-year-old was acquitted of attempted murder and attempted assault in the first degree. He faces a sentence ranging from a minimum of five years to a maximum of 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on December 2.

Soto was apprehended in Fayetteville on April 30, 2019, by the FBI, following a joint investigation between the Yonkers Police Department, the District Attorney’s Office, the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, and FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force. The Westchester County Department of Public Safety assisted Yonkers Police Department with the arrest.