Friday, July 23, 2010
Mingo County Woman Sentenced To Federal Prison
WEST VIRGINIA....
Forty-one year old Patricia Burton of North Matewan in Mingo County was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Charleston to 30 years in a federal prison. Barton pled guilty in 2005 to helping co-defendant Valerie Friend lure federal drug informant 33 year old Carla Collins to an abandoned mobile home where Collins was beaten and shot to death. Friend pleaded guilty last October to a cocaine conspiracy charge and to witness retaliation by killing. Co-defendant, George “Porgy” Lecco, was convicted in May on three murder-related counts and other charges. Prosecutors said Lecco ordered Collins’ death to protect a drug operation.
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