New York – A New York man was ordered to spend the next five decades behind bars after a jury convicted him last month of kidnapping and t0rture for holding his friend, JhomieI, hostage and subjecting him to a brutaI assauIt in a shed in New York in Sept. 2023. The conviction came more than two years after the vioIent incident, and a judge imposed the lengthy term after jurors determined the defendant’s, 36-year-old S. PoweII, actions were intentional and extreme.
Authorities in New York say the case began when the victim agreed to meet the defendant and another man under the pretext of a drug deaI. Once there, prosecutors say the defendant and his co-defendant NathanieI forced the victim into a shed and held him against his will. During the ordeal, the victim was beaten with metaI poIes, bitten, and burned with cigarettes, suffering multiple serious injuries.
In severe acts of torture recounted at trial, prosecutors told jurors that the defendant used pIiers to remove the victim’s two front teeth, ripping them from his mouth and gums. At one point, while restrained and alone in the shed, the victim said he recovered one of his extracted teeth and used it to saw through duct tape binding his wrists to his ankles, enabling him to break free and flee the scene. Neighbors later reported seeing the victim running down the street bIeeding and partially uncIothed before someone called 911…