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Dorchester man convicted of shooting another man in the head to keep him from talking to the feds
By adamg on Fri, 06/24/2016 - 7:23pm
A federal jury this week convicted Jaquan Casanova of tampering with a witness by attempting to kill him, which could net him up to 30 years in prison, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports.
Casanova proved a poor shot and his target survived.
The two had been involved in a multi-state prostitution ring with a third man, Raymond Jeffreys, also of Dorchester. Jeffreys became convinced that the other man was talking to the feds after he was arrested in New Jersey on federal sex-trafficking charges and got Casanova to shoot him as he sat in a car at Draper and Westville streets in Dorchester, in April, 2013.
Jeffreys was sentenced to 30 years in prison in May of this year, after pleading guilty to tampering with a witness by attempting to kill him, lying to a federal agent and sex trafficking.
Casanova will be sentenced on Sept. 14.
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Prime example
of what happens when witnesses cooperate with law enforcement, and also why witnesses are afraid to come forward.
Except it isn't
The witness didn't "come forward." He was trying to cop a plea by giving up his partners after he was busted. In other words, a snitch.
Your response makes it sound like you wanted the guy to die
I would rather have them all in jail. And if snitching will do it good. And we should protect the snitch if he is giving up the other guy.
It does?
To you, I guess. I didn't want that, and I really can't see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way.