10/6/17
by News Department on 10/06/17State prison sentence...
32 year old Juan J. Perez, of Pottsville, is headed to state prison after a Schuylkill County judge sentenced him, Thursday, for kidnapping a man in December 2016 in Shenandoah.
A jury deliberated almost three hours on Aug. 24 before finding Perez guilty of multiple charges after Shenandoah police alleged Perez and two other men kidnapped 26 year old William Murphy, of Shenandoah, from a borough street about 8 a.m., forced him to return to his residence, kept him there for several hours and then drove him to Reading.
President Judge William E. Baldwin sentenced Perez to serve 12 1/2 to 25 years in a state correctional institution.
