{"id":27466,"date":"2013-10-20T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=27466"},"modified":"2013-10-20T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T18:58:18","slug":"2-convicted-in-death-of-man-found-in-woods-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/10\/2-convicted-in-death-of-man-found-in-woods-in-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Convicted In Death Of <br>Man Found In Woods In NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27467\" style=\"width: 98px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27467  \" title=\"Patrick Smith\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Patrick-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"123\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two men have been convicted in the death of a man who was found in woods in New York&#8217;s Westchester County in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said Thursday that 26-year-old Patrick Smith, of Lehigh Acres, Fla. was found guilty of second-degree murder and other charges. Travis Morin, also 26, of Danbury, N.H. was convicted of robbery and unlawful imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->They were tried before separate juries.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, Epifanio Medina, was found dead in June 2011 in North Salem, N.Y. Two horseback riders found Medina&#8217;s decomposing body.<\/p>\n<p>Medina was from Florida but had been living in Passaic, N.J. Prosecutors said he was known to carry lots of cash.<\/p>\n<p>Two others have pleaded guilty to charges relating to Medina&#8217;s death, Jessica Ryan French and Charles Blanchard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been convicted in the death of a man who was found in woods in New York&#8217;s Westchester County in 2011. Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said Thursday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}