Wrong Team, wrong time: Kidnapped & Tortured

NINE PEOPLE WENT to prison for the kidnapping and torture of Kollias and his teammate. Three were sentenced for watching over the captives and acting as lookouts. Samantha Hughes and Leah Gigliotti pleaded guilty and testified against the others. They were each sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison. Three of the four men in the cellphone video recording of the torture, including Elliot Rivera, also pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 35 years in prison. During Lydell Strickland's trial in December 2016, prosecutors described him as the "ringleader" and "mastermind" of the plot. He laughed when a judge sentenced him to 155 years in prison.

Three months later, in March, Isaiah Smith faced a judge for his role in orchestrating the drug robbery that started it all. Smith had already left school soon after his arrest, though the university will not say whether he withdrew or was expelled. At Smith's sentencing hearing, Judge Melchor E. Castro told the former linebacker, "I suppose you couldn't realize what events you set up when you did this." As the judge sentenced Smith to 13½ years in prison, he said, "This is all your fault."

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calamity said:

Many times in life, when I look back at my wilder times, I sometimes wonder how many bad things I managed to avoid or just lucked out of not falling into. None of those flashes ever come close to this though.

Responding to a Facebook post from a "hot chick" two ballplayers gets suckered into a nightmare...all because one of their teammates was a scheming, thieving jerk.

University of Rochester football player kidnapped, tortured for 40 hours

The good news in all this? The good guys lived, and the bad guys are all doing long stretches of time.


Damn! Just damn.

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calamity said:

Many times in life, when I look back at my wilder times, I sometimes wonder how many bad things I managed to avoid or just lucked out of not falling into. None of those flashes ever come close to this though.

Responding to a Facebook post from a "hot chick" two ballplayers gets suckered into a nightmare...all because one of their teammates was a scheming, thieving jerk.

University of Rochester football player kidnapped, tortured for 40 hours

The good news in all this? The good guys lived, and the bad guys are all doing long stretches of time.


Damn! Just damn.

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Crovax said:

Don't worry though because weed is "harmless" :shrug:

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