A 41-year-old Port St. Lucie man will spend much of the next decade behind bars for a deadly pre-dawn hit-and-run in Boca Raton.
Carlos Madeira Cardoso was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in Florida state prison after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of a crash that killed 65-year-old pedestrian Martin Albert Barry in April 2024. The judge also handed down a concurrent five-year term for tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and ordered Cardoso’s driver’s license suspended for three years.
The collision happened in the early-morning hours of April 6, 2024, at the intersection of State Road 7 and Sandalfoot Boulevard. Barry was struck at about 4:10 a.m., taken to an area hospital and pronounced dead around 5:51 a.m., according to The Boca Raton Tribune…