On April 19 a Montgomery County jury returned a life sentence for Charles Earl Sampson, 48, for his fourth Burglary of a Habitation conviction.

Sampson was found guilty in the burglary of the home of a 71-year-old widow in Magnolia that occurred on July 16, 2010. The woman was not home at the time, but her son, Houston Police Officer John Heimann, drove by the house and saw an unfamiliar truck parked in the driveway.

Heimann discovered Sampson coming out of a back bedroom, holding a pillowcase full of his mother’s belongings. Heimann, who was still in his police uniform, pulled his service handgun and ordered Sampson to the ground. As Heimann reached for a phone to call for emergency assistance, Sampson ran away into the woods surrounding the home.

He was apprehended shortly after by Heimann, until Montgomery County law enforcement officers arrived to take Sampson into custody.

At the time of the burglary, Sampson was on parole from a previous life sentence for Burglary of a Habitation which he received in 1993 and he had previously been convicted of two other Burglaries of Habitation, Robbery and Forgery. This will be Sampson’s third time to go prison.

“Sampson is obviously never going to stop victimizing law abiding citizens,” Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon stated.  “Our office will be doing everything in its power to make sure that this time Sampson stays in prison where he belongs.”

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