Two men were sentenced Monday at Suffolk County court in Riverhead in the shooting and dismemberment of a pair of rivals in a drug deal gone bad.
James Wall and Darren Lynch
Darren Lynch, 29, of Queens, and James Wall, 30, of Coram, were convicted last month of murder and kidnapping in the deaths of 22-year-old Jairo Santos and 35-year-old Joseph Odierno.
Lynch testified at trial that he killed the two because he was infuriated that they had sold him $30,000 worth of fake cocaine.
The victims were last seen in July 2008 at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus in Old Brookville, where Santos was a student. Odierno was a truck driver from Miller Place.
Judge Robert Doyle sentenced Lynch to life without parole. Wall got 50 years to life.
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