NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Wednesday for his part in a brutal 1997 home invasion in which a woman was burned alive and a man tortured with an iron, the Manhattan District Attorney's office said. Daniel Santana, 35, a fugitive for 11 years, was convicted of murder with "depraved indifference to human life" and kidnapping charges on June 13. "The facts of this case are truly chilling," District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement. "A woman was burned alive, individuals were tortured, and the perpetrators of this heinous crime were at large for more than a decade. Pandora Charms On Sale
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The major break in the case came in 2001 when an incarcerated cousin of Santana's told detectives about Santana's involvement in the crime. Santana was arrested in 2008. A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office said the surviving victims were not located until 2008 because they had fled the country without reporting the crime after receiving threats from associates of Santana and Perez. Perez is still a fugitive and is thought to be in the Dominican Republic. GRETNA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man whose 1975 murder conviction was commuted by then-Gov. Edwin Edwards has been indicted in the shooting death of his neighbor. Pandora Bangles
A grand jury handed up a second-degree murder charge Thursday against 62-year-old Roy Garland of Kenner. Police said his 42-year-old neighbor, Willie Hall, died April 11 in a wooded area near the New Orleans international airport. Police said that as he was dying, Hall identified his killer in phone calls to his brother and an emergency operator.
Pandora Beads Sale The Times-Picayune reported that Garland was convicted in 1975 of killing a 38-year-old man in Kenner and sentenced to life in prison. Edwards commuted the sentence, leading to Garland's release in 1988. It was not immediately clear if Garland has an attorney. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man who conned Chinese immigrants into joining his fake U.S. Army unit was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to counterfeiting and other charges. Pandora Bracelets Sale
Yupeng Deng gave himself the title "Supreme Commander" when he was running his fictitious unit, and he promised recruits their time in his squad was a path to U.S. citizenship. A Chinese national from the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, Deng convinced over 200 Chinese nationals from around the United States to join, and charged them initiation fees ranging from $300 to $450. He was arrested in April following an investigation by the FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
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The Joplin tornado is expected to generate additional fees equal to almost one-tenth of that annual amount, he said. Some of the additional money will go toward the cleanup from a May 21 tornado that hit the small town of Reading, Kan., killing one man and destroying or substantially damaging more than 50 homes, Bider said. Other areas of Kansas that suffered storm damage also could benefit from the additional landfill fees resulting from the Joplin tornado, he said. In Missouri, where landfill dumping generated $10.8 million last fiscal year, the Joplin tornado will create a smaller proportional influx of fees.
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"These fees, which are largely paid by the public sector, are critical to ensure the tremendous amount of debris is handled in a safe and secure manner." The Federal Emergency Management Agency currently is paying contractors the full cost for the Joplin debris removal and at some later point will submit a bill to the state for the local share of the cleanup costs, said FEMA spokesman Josh deBerge. The tornado already has been a boon for companies providing demolition, debris removal, dumping and landfill services. Prairie View Regional Landfill, about 40 miles north of Joplin, has been accepting between 60 and 100 truckloads of debris daily from Joplin — doubling the tonnage of trash it normally receives, said operations manager Chuck Goff. tiffany bracelet
"It's a very unfortunate, tragic thing that happened, but for the whole area, the work's picking up all over the place," Goff said. The landfill at Galena, Kan. — located just a few miles from where the tornado touched down in Joplin — had been run by one man with a loader, said Galena Mayor Dale Oglesby. After the tornado, Galena contracted with Joplin-based Jordan Disposal Services to manage the landfill so that it could handle the influx of tornado debris. The company already has hired 30 people to operate the landfill, and plans to hire nearly a couple dozen more. tiffany necklace
About 350 trucks a day — a tenfold increase over the landfill's prior traffic flow — now are hauling Joplin debris to Galena, said Quincy Jordan, manager of the company's demolition division. The landfill is providing free lunches of hamburgers or hotdogs, chips and water to the steady flow of truck drivers, she said. Galena officials have discussed the potential of turning part of the landfill — when it is full and covered with dirt — into a memorial park dedicated to tornado victims and survivors, Oglesby said. "It's a terrible thing that Joplin's had to go through," Oglesby said. But "a lot of people are going to have a job because of this. A lot of materials are going to be sold and a lot of materials are going to be disposed of. cheap tiffany and co jewelry