Sentencing is set for June in Carbon County, record show.
John Anthony Martocci, who has been held without bail since his arraignment April 9, 2020, on a single count of criminal homicide, is scheduled to be sentenced June 2 in Carbon County Court, records show.John Anthony Martocci, 66, a former Roseto councilman and candidate for mayor.Early in 2020, Martocci was apparently upset that a 49-year-old woman he used to date had gotten back together with her on-and-off boyfriend, 58-year-old Kenneth Knibiehly, Pennsylvania State Police said.
Two years before the killing, Knibiehly gathered information about Martocci’s affair with the woman and gave it to Martocci’s wife, police said in 2020. Martocci – “very mad and jealous” that Knibiehly and the woman were back together, according to a March 24, 2020, letter Martocci wrote to the woman – on April 6, 2020, came to Knibiehly’s house in the first block of Van Doren Mews in Penn Forest Township, Carbon County, andMartocci faces a sentence of life in prison, according to state guidelines. He remains in Carbon County Correctional Facility, records show.
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