WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) _ A federal judge has imposed a 30-year prison sentence on a man who tied up his ex-girlfriend in her New York apartment and stuffed her in a suitcase where she suffocated and was found dead in Greenwich, Connecticut a week later.
Javier Da Silva was sentenced Thursday in federal court in White Plains, New York. He pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge last year in the 2019 killing of 24-year-old Valerie Reyes, of New Rochelle.
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Her body was found in the suitcase in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Da Silva apologized during the court hearing.
Reyes' mother called Da Silva a "soulless" person who deserves to suffer.