2 Men Convicted In Violent 2022 Farmington Home Invasion: State

FARMINGTON, CT — Two men, one from East Hartford and the other from Hartford, have been convicted for their roles in a violent home invasion in Farmington back in 2022.

Sharmese L. Walcott, Hartford Judicial District State’s Attorney, said Wednesday that a jury in Hartford Superior Court on Aug. 8 found Joshua Jenkins, 33, of East Hartford, and Branden Holloway, 26, of Hartford, guilty of home invasion, multiple sexual assaults, assault, and robbery.

Walcott said Jenkins and Halloway were both found guilty of one count of home invasion, one count of conspiracy to commit a home invasion, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, two counts of second-degree assault with a weapon, two counts of first-degree robbery by threat of a firearm, and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery.

According to evidence at the trial, on Sept. 13, 2022, at approximately 1:45 a.m., Farmington police officers responded to a 911 call at a local residence, Walcott said, and officers located two victims who were bloodied and naked.

Both victims reported that at approximately 11 p.m. Sept. 12, Jenkins and Holloway, dressed in black clothing, came through the tree line holding firearms with lasers, and ordered the victims out of the hot tub and into the home of one of the victims, Walcott said.

According to Walcott, the suspects told the victims, “This is a robbery, not a homicide.”

After stripping the victims naked and tying up their hands and feet, Jenkins and Holloway ransacked the home for two hours in search of jewelry, money, and valuables, Walcott said.

She said the victims were pistol-whipped and assaulted in several, some degrading, ways in an attempt to find cash and jewelry in the home.

Sometime before 1:30 a.m., the victims escaped by untying themselves and jumping from the second-floor balcony, according to Walcott.

She said they ran through the trees to a neighbor’s home and asked for help to call the police.

According to testimony from a cooperating witness, the crime was a planned home invasion and robbery, according to Walcott.

She said cell phone and Instagram records show phone calls between the defendants before and after the home invasion.

Records from cell towers placed the defendants near the victim’s home at the time of the home invasion, according to Walcott.

Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 7 in Hartford Superior Court.

A third suspect, Maryelizabeth Bradford, 25, of Hartford, was also charged in connection with the case on similar charges.

Online court records indicate she pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2022, to home invasion, first-degree burglary, and conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery using a firearm.

She was reported to be a star witness for the prosecution in the trial of the other two men, and her next court appearance on the Farmington charges is Sept. 11.

Bradford has been released from custody on $750,000 bond and has yet to be sentenced.

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