GREENVILLE – The United States Attorney for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that today,
FRANCISCO DAMIAN TORRES-VICTORIA, 25, of Elizabethtown, was sentenced by United
States Senior District Judge Malcolm J. Howard for murder-for-hire and
possession of a firearm by an alien.
Judge Howard sentenced TORRES-VICTORIA to 120 months of imprisonment
followed by 3 years of supervised release.
TORRES-VICTORIA was charged in a three-count indictment on
October 5, 2016, and pled guilty to two counts on May 7, 2018.
Between September 7 and September 15, 2016, TORRES-VICTORIA
recruited a confidential informant (CI) to murder a fifteen-year-old boy and
his family because the boy was dating TORRES-VICTORIA’s ex-girlfriend.
TORRES-VICTORIA instructed the CI to “kill them all” and burn down the
residence. He provided the CI with a firearm, a can of gasoline, and a
photograph of the intended victim.
The investigation of this case was conducted by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office. The case was handled by Assistant United
States Attorney Erin Blondel for the Government
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