{"id":9482,"date":"2012-06-11T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=9482"},"modified":"2012-06-11T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T20:11:14","slug":"lehigh-resident-charged-with-murder-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/lehigh-resident-charged-with-murder-in-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Resident <BR>Charged With Murder in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9483\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Patrick-Smith-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9483\" title=\"Patrick Smith 1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Patrick-Smith-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patrick Smith\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?sugexp=chrome,mod%3D15&amp;q=2703+10th+Street+SW&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x88db725e3cde144b:0x4164e20d52da856d,2703+10th+St+SW,+Lehigh+Acres,+FL+33976&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=70_WT_6ANYm69QS0ofHlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA\">2703 10th Street SW<\/a>, Lehigh Acres faces a sentence of 25 years-to-life in prison after being charged with second-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery, among other charges related to the 2011 murder of\u00a0Epifanio Medina, 65, whose decomposing body was discovered in North Salem woods last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Westchester County District Attorney\u2019s office announced the seven-count indictment on Monday. Smith, of Lehigh Acres, FL, was arrested in April and also faces charges of unlawful imprisonment and grand larceny, felonies, and criminal possession of stolen property, a misdemeanor.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police said two horseback riders discovered Medina\u2019s body on June 12, 2011. Medina was a FL resident living in Passaic, NJ, at the time. He was known to carry large amounts of cash and wore flashy jewelry, according to the DA\u2019s Office. Officials said he was last seen exiting a Passaic liquor store on June 2, 2011 at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said family members reported Medina missing on June 5, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Medina, of Union, NJ, said at the time, \u201cThere\u2019s definitely foul play,\u201d according to\u00a0North Jersey.com.\u00a0His father was known in the neighborhood as \u201cTio,\u201d or uncle. He had six children and worked at a liquor store until he was laid off a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Three accomplices\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yorktown.patch.com\/articles\/florida-woman-24-charged-in-north-salem-murder\">have previously been arrested<\/a>\u00a0and charged in the murder: Jessica Ryan French, also of Lehigh Acres, FL, Charles Blanchard, of Hill, NH, and Travis Morin of Danbury, CT.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Police conducted \u201can extensive, wide ranging investigation,\u201d according to authorities, and expanded their investigation both in Florida and and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is in the county jail awaiting his next court appearance on July 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Smith\u00a0of 2703 10th Street SW, Lehigh Acres faces a sentence of 25 years-to-life in prison after being charged with second-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery, among other charges related to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482"}],"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=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}