A Tucson man has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for the murder of a 28-year-old man in west Phoenix in 2022.
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that 48-year-old John Anthony Cole had been sentenced to 31 years in prison.According to police documents, officers were initially called to investigate a possible kidnapping from a home in West Phoenix in late September of 2022.A woman reportedly told police she had received text messages from her boyfriend, 28-year-old Antoine Smith, saying he had been kidnapped on Sept. 16 or 17 and was scared.
People who knew the suspect, 45-year-old John Cole, reportedly tried to communicate with him to ensure Smith’s safety, but Cole said he didn’t know where Smith was located and that Smith had gotten out of his vehicle at an unknown location.Police say they were able to locate Cole’s vehicle headed to California. He was stopped near Quartzsite where he was taken into custody.
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