Burlington County man who sexually assaulted woman at gunpoint imprisoned

A Burlington County man admits to breaking into a Browns Mills home on Ursinus Court in the University Park Apartments in May of 2017 and sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint around 2:45 am.

Under terms reached with the prosecutors office 26-year old Lawrence Pippins will spend 25-years in state prison after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault (First Degree) and kidnapping (First Degree).

Pippins must serve more than 21 years of his sentence before he'll be eligible for parole.

He's also subject to additional prison time for violating parole by committing these offenses.

Pippins who was indicted in September has been in the Burlington County Jail since his June 2017 arrest.

He was taken into custody the day after the assault in May of last year.

The case was investigated by the Pemberton Township Police Department and the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.