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MISS CONGENIALITY BEAUTY QUEEN MURDERS MAN
15-04-2024
2024
True Crime
It's the story of: Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives' investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Michael Collins Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153

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captionPictured here is: Aria Armstead Aria Armstead was a competitive beauty pageant contestant with a promising life ahead of her. Within a few short years, however, her life went in a different direction and landed her in prison. As a teenager, she competed in beauty pageants and was voted Miss Congeniality in the Little Miss Florida Pageant. When she was 16, Armstead quit competing in pageants. Soon after, she began dating Nathan Ortiz. After turning 18, Armstead moved in with Ortiz at his parents’ home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, outside Fort Myers. It was through her boyfriend that Aria met Matthew Collins. Collins had got into trouble when he was younger and did a stint in prison but since getting out he was trying to turn his life around and had recently moved in with his new girlfriend. She reported him missing in 2017 – after he went out in her car for a haircut and never came back. The car was found a few days later with a bullet hole in the windscreen. Detectives investigation led them to Aria and Nathan – who had been partying with Collins the night he disappeared. After an argument broke out between the trio, Aria shot him and the couple then buried his body. Nathan Ortiz pleaded guilty and agreed to help investigators locate the murder weapon and testify against Armstead at trial. Ortiz was sentenced to 42 months in prison and was released in October 2020. Aria Armstead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ref: F NICLA 110424 A Focus News Agency npittam@focusnewsagency.com 001 310 962 4153