St. Louis Park Woman Charged in Witness-Tampering Scheme
Police say Heidi Marie Mastin helped bribe and intimidate witnesses in an effort to get her son, Lamonte Rydell Martin, a new trial. Martin is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder.
A St. Louis Park woman has been charged with being part of a large group of people who police say bribed and intimidated witnesses in an effort to help her son, a convicted murderer, get his conviction overturned. Heidi Marie Mastin, 47, is charged with two felonies: being an accomplice after the fact in aiding an offender by obstructing an investigation, which carries a maximum penalty of a half-life prison term, and bribery, for which the maximum penalty is 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Nine other people have been charged in the witness-tampering scheme. Mastin is the mother of Lamonte Rydell Martin, 24, who was convicted in 2007 of first-degree premeditated murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of …
Kelly Smith
5:36 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
The lady that is a PCA wasn't and isn't a gang banger. I son who is in jail is a gang banger. more ›