Illegal Immigrant Involved in NJ Murder Sentenced
"Jose Lachira Carranza, one of six suspects accused of killing three
people in a playground last summer, was sentenced on Monday to eight years in prison for assaulting two men during a bar fight in 2006. The bar brawl drew attention soon after the playground killings, when it was disclosed that Mr. Carranza, 29, an illegal immigrant from Peru, could have been detained by federal authorities after his arrest for assault," the New York Times reports. "Mr. Carranza was also arrested in 2007, before the Newark playground killings, on charges that he sexually assaulted a child over a four-year period."
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