CODY, Wyo. (AP) - A Wyoming man has been sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison for killing and dismembering a suspected drug dealer.
KULR-TV reports (https://bit.ly/2rOrgEq) that Pedro Garcia Jr. was sentenced Friday in the December 2013 death of Juan Antonio Guerra-Torres. Garcia had pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree murder.
Guerra-Torres’ decapitated body was found in 2014 on a remote road near the northwest Wyoming town of Clark, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Cody. It took months for authorities to identify him. One hand and his other arm also had been removed.
Garcia’s sister and the victim’s wife, Sandra Garcia, is serving 10 to 18 years for aiding and abetting manslaughter and being an accessory after the fact to second-degree murder.
A third defendant, John Louis Marquez, pleaded guilty to shooting Guerra-Torres. He was sentenced to 25 to 35 years in prison in May.
Marquez testified that he killed Guerra-Torres after Pedro Garcia, a longtime family friend, told him the victim owed thousands of dollars to drug traffickers who were threatening to kill Sandra Garcia’s family.
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