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20 years to life for murder
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Mineola’s Marvin Yanez sentenced BY R E B ECC A K L A R A Mineola man was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the 2016 murder of Luis Estrada, 31, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced on Thursday. The Mineola man, Marvin Yanez, 43, killed Estrada in his sleep in Brierley Park in Hempstead around 11 p.m. on Oct. 18, 2016, by beating him in the head with an unknown object, accordPHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR ing to the district attorney’s office. Storefronts on Hillside Avenue in Williston Park were transformed into retro facades for filming of “The Irishman” “Thanks to good detective movie on Saturday. work and our prosecutors this case was solved and the family of Mr. Estrada now has some justice,” Singas said in a statement.! Yanez was convicted by a jury on Sept. 27 of second-degree murder, second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon after a two-week-long trial before Judge Helene Gugerty and a five-hour B Y R E B E C C A K L A R co-owner John Ledecky said County, Cuomo said during a Islanders will split their 120 deliberation by a jury, according on Monday when Gov. Andrew news conference at Nassau Coli- home games between their forto the district attorney’s office. mer home, at Nassau Coliseum, The New York Islanders will Cuomo announced that the team seum. Continued on Page 43 “rock the barn,” once again, will return to Nassau Coliseum Nassau County Executive and their current home at the to play half its games while Laura Curran and state Senate Barclays Center. The Islanders could be playthe new arena at Belmont Majority Leader John Flanagan joined Cuomo in announcing the ing at the renovated Coliseum as Park is built. It is part of a transitional Islanders’ sooner-than-expected early as September, Cuomo said. The Islanders played at the phase of the Islanders mov- return to Nassau. In the three seasons until Coliseum for 45 years before ing from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn back to Nassau the Belmont arena is built, the Continued on Page 44
Islanders returning to Coliseum Will split home games with Barclays until Belmont arena ready in 3 years
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