Queens gang leader sentenced to 28 years to life for 2020 park murder
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Brooklyn man sentenced to up to 9 years for fatal drunk driving crash
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Queens man sentenced to 15 years for rooftop rape, attempted murder
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Jersey City man sentenced to 18 years for deadly light rail stabbing
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Ocean County Man Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Selling Explicit Photos of Children
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Clarkstown man sentenced to 21 years for distributing fentanyl linked to multiple poisonings
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Aberdeen woman wins Maryland Lottery’s Ravens Seats for 20 Years prize
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Leaders of larget Newark open-air drug market sentenced to 14 years in federal prison
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D.C. man sentenced to 22 years for armed robberies of Maryland cell phone stores
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Belleville man sentenced to six years for fatal DWI crash in Roxbury
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Duo gets 14 years after vicious assault over parking space in Queens
Couple Sentenced for Attempted Murder in Parking Dispute
**Queens, NY** – Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the sentencing of Arturo Cuevas and Daisy Barrera to 14 years in prison after their guilty plea to attempted murder charges. The charges stem from a March 2023 assault on their 28-year-old neighbor over a parking space conflict.
The defendants pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder before Queens Supreme Court Justice Mary L. Bejarano on January 7. The sentence was delivered after a video of the attack shocked the city.
According to charges, the incident occurred on March 17, 2023, around 3:40 p.m. Cuevas and Barrera attacked their neighbor Wilson Chabla Lliguicota with weapons over a prior parking dispute, resulting in serious injuries.
The attack ended when police arrived, leading to the couple’s arrest after a standoff. Lliguicota, left with severe brain trauma and unable to return to his job, required extensive medical treatment. The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Alexia Campoverde.
South Carolina woman sentenced to 18 years for role in Brittanee Drexel’s kidnapping and murder
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Maryland woman sentenced to 50 years for killing young niece and nephew, storing bodies in car trunk
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Bedford County foster father sentenced to up to eight years for violently shaking toddler
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Bronx man sentenced to 20 years for brutal attack on 12-year-old girl
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Brick Man Gets 8 Years for Desecrating Human Remains in Grisly Countywide Double Murder-Suicide
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Roslyn man sentenced to up to 25 years for crash that killed two teens
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Trenton man convicted in 2022 shooting, faces up to 30 years
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Brooklyn driver sentenced to up to six years for fatal red-light crash
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Middletown man sentenced to 20 years for arson at trooper’s home
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Bronx man sentenced to 25 years to life for murdering his mother
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New Jersey bill would criminalize “Deepfakes” with up to five years in prison
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Former NYCHA superintendent sentenced to four years for accepting $300K in bribes
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DC man sentenced to 37 years for murder of best friend, witness tampering
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Georgia man sentenced to 475 years for massive dogfighting operation
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Philadelphia Jehovah’s Witnesses member sentenced to up to 4 years for child sexual abuse
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After Killing and Dismembering Corpse of for Boyfriend, New Jersey Woman Gets 25 Years in Prison
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High-speed, alcohol-fueled crash left one brother dead and the other facing years behind bars
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West Hempstead man sentenced to up to 21 years for fatal 2021 drunk driving crash
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North Bellmore man sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering wife
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Police Suprised to Find Armed Carjacker Was 13 Years Old
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Bronx woman sentenced to 18 years for fatal Whitestone Expressway crash
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Brooklyn man sentenced to seven years in prison for revenge shooting that wounded wrong man
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Newark Man Sentenced to Nine Years for Robbing Amazon Driver in Linden
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Hempstead man sentenced to 24 years to life for 2019 robbery and fatal shooting
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Suspect arrested after 13 years in shocking armed sexual abuse case in D.C.
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New Jersey school bus company owner sentenced to five years for endangering students’ safety
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