Hicksville deadly crash: Ganesh Shenoy, man extradited to US from India, sentenced as much as 10 years in jail in 2005 collision
HICKSVILLE, New York (WABC) — A person initially from India who pleaded responsible to a deadly high-speed crash on Lengthy Island has been sentenced on Friday.
Ganesh Shenoy, 54, was sentenced to as much as 10 years in jail in connection to the lethal crash in Hicksville again in 2005. He pleaded responsible to manslaughter within the second diploma on February 6.
On April 11, 2005, prosecutors say Shenoy was driving twice the velocity restrict when he drove via a purple mild at Levittown Parkway and Previous County Highway and crashed into 44-year-old Philip Mastropolo’s automobile.
The pressure of the crash demolished Mastropolo’s automobile and despatched the car skidding into the entrance of a Freightliner field truck that was stopped on the purple mild on the opposite facet of the intersection, officers say.
First responders pronounced Mastropolo useless on the scene. Shenoy was taken to the hospital for remedy, however refused medical consideration and left.
Regardless of having his New York State Driver’s License and Indian Passport seized by police, Shenoy boarded a aircraft at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport to Mumbai, India, simply 14 days after the crash.
Authorities say Shenoy by no means returned to the U.S. and lived in India for 20 years earlier than being extradited again to the U.S. for trial final September.
“For twenty years, Philip Mastropolo’s spouse and youngsters have carried the burden of his loss and the burden of figuring out this cowardly defendant hid half a world away. They waited for accountability and for the day when Ganesh Shenoy was lastly delivered to justice. As we speak was that day,” Nassau County District Lawyer Anne Donnelly mentioned.
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It marks the primary extradition from India to the U.S. since 2017.
Within the closed courtroom, Mastropolo’s daughter spoke of her household’s grief.
“My dad labored two jobs so my mom might keep dwelling with my brother with leukemia,” she mentioned. “He was a person who deserved to develop previous together with his household.”
To Shenoy, she mentioned, “you didn’t kill an excellent man, you killed an incredible man.”
Mastropolo’s household was requested as they left the sentencing, if this seems like justice, they mentioned, “if that is what you wish to name it.”
Shenoy’s case was the primary extradition of an individual from India to the U.S. since 2017, officers mentioned.
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