L’Observateur / July 29, 2000

HAHNVILLE – A New Orleans man was convicted Wednesday of two counts of armed robbery in the case of the June 10, 1999 Burger King robbery in Ormond, according to Assistant District Attorney Kim McElwee of the 29th Judicial District.

Christopher Sanborn, 24, 7477 Pitt St., and accomplice Ty Collins took aporter at the restaurant at gunpoint from behind the building where she was dumping grease. They took her back into the restaurant and put her inthe cooler.

They then approached manager John Carroll and hit him in the head with a .38 revolver, causing a gash which required 18 stitches, and forced him toopen the restaurant’s safe.

Then the robbers shot Carroll in the thigh and buttocks, locked him in the cooler and made off with cash from the business.

Crime scene technician Mike Jackson, aided by K-9 officer Lt. PinkDuckworth, found a pair of gloves, a bandanna with eye-holes cut out, a Burger King shirt stolen from the manager and some of the cash from the robbery in the field across Ormond from the restaurant.

Two other people were involved in the robbery, according to McElwee, Danielle Kenner (Sanborn’s girlfriend) and Marian Sanborn (Sanborn’s cousin). They dropped Sanborn and his accomplice off at the Burger Kingand picked them up afterward following their unsuccessful attempt to steal the manager’s car. They drove back to New Orleans, split the moneyand went to a truck stop casino.

Kenner and Marian Sanborn testified against Christopher Sanborn in the two-day trial which ended Wednesday night, and they will likely receive suspended sentences in return for their testimony.

“This was a vicious, brutal crime,” McElwee commented. “We didn’t have acase at all without those two girls.”Sentencing for Sanborn is set Aug. 15 before Judge Kirk Granier, and hefaces a potential 198 years in prison.

Collins’ trial is set to begin Aug. 22.

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