Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - A Buffalo man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford for his role in the murder of three people in a drug deal back in September 2019.
52-year-old Jariel Cobb, also known as "Doobie" and "Black", previously pleaded guilty to narcotics conspiracy, conspiracy to obstruct justice, use of fire to commit a felony, and conspiracy to damage and destroy a vehicle used in interstate commerce by fire.
Prosecutors say on Sept. 15, 2019, Cobb arranged a purchase of a kilogram of cocaine from Miguel Anthony Valentin-Colon and Dhamyl Roman-Audiffred, who served as Cobb’s sources of supply. Valentin-Colon, along with his wife. Nicole Marie Merced-Plaud, their minor son, and Roman-Audiffred, arrived in their vehicle, a white minivan, at a residence on Roebling Avenue, as directed by Cobb.
Roman-Audiffred exited the van and entered the residence’s kitchen, at which time Deandre Wilson hit her in the head with a blunt object and she fell to the floor.
Wilson then went outside and shot and killed both Valentin-Colon and Merced-Plaud in the presence of their minor son, who was seated in a child’s car seat.
The co-defendant then drove the minivan and parked it on Scajaquada Street near Kilhoffer Street in Buffalo.
A short time later, Cobb and Wilson moved the body of Roman-Audiffred from the kitchen into the residence’s basement, where they dismembered her body and placed the parts into the trunk of his vehicle, and then drove to a residence on Box Avenue, removed the trash bags, and placed them into a burning fire in a fire pit area in the backyard.
The following day, during the early morning hours of Sept. 16, 2019, Cobb and another co-defendant retrieved the minivan from Scajaquada Street with the bodies of Valentin-Colon and Merced-Plaud still inside, as well as their minor son. Cobb and Wilson drove the minivan into the yard of a residence on Tonawanda Street and doused the vehicle and the bodies with gasoline, lighting the vehicle and bodies on fire.
They took the minor child and left him on a stranger’s porch on Potomac Avenue in Buffalo.
Wilson was convicted in front of a federal grand jury back in November 2022 and later sentenced to three life sentences in prison for his role in the triple homicide.
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