Metairie man who used bogus court order to kick his ex-girlfriend out of her home sentenced to 20 years in prison as career criminal

Posted on March 26, 2013 | 1 Comment

By Paul Purpura, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on March 25, 2013 at 3:16 PM, updated March 25, 2013 at 4:21 PM

A Metairie man convicted of using an ill-gotten court order to kick his ex-girlfriend out of her house so he could sell her belongings in garage sales saw his prison sentence double Monday under Louisiana’s habitual offender law. Vincent Castillo, 43, will serve 20 years in prison, a judge ordered in finding that Castillo is a twice-convicted felon.

Castillo was convicted of attempted extortion in 2000 and of simple burglary on Jan. 24. The latter case involved his lying to a district judge in Jefferson Parish to get what otherwise was a perfectly legal court order barring his ex-girlfriend Lea Fink from going to her home.

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