Perfume thugs sentenced to
jail
NEW YORK, April 27, 2009 (AFP) -
Life stopped smelling rosy for a New York gang sentenced Monday to
lengthy prison sentences for hijacking trucks loaded with perfumes
and cosmetics.
A woman looks at perfume bottles
in 2008 in the south of France. Life stopped smelling rosy for a
New York gang sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for hijacking
trucks loaded with perfumes and cosmetics (AFP/File/Stephane
Danna)
A court in White Plains, New York,
sentenced the three men to 55, 37 and 26 years for a series of
armed hijackings in the New York region between September 2006 and
January 2007, prosecutors said.
In one hit the gang stormed a
truck carrying more than 500,000 dollars worth of perfume,
pistol-whipped the drivers, the drove the truck to New Jersey for
unloading.
In another attack, two of the
convicted men took part in the hijacking of a tractor-trailer
containing more than 150,000 dollars worth of Elizabeth Arden
cosmetics in Pennsylvania, prosecutors said.