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Anthony
J. SANTOS
Classification:
Homicide
Characteristics: Argument
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder:
March 10,
2006
Date of birth: 1962
Victim profile: Craig Powell,
36
Method of murder: Stabbing
with knife
Location: Northampson County, Pennsylvania, USA
Status: Sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison on June 15, 2007
Bethlehem
stabber gets 20-40 years
June 15, 2007
A 45-year-old Bethlehem man who
was convicted of stabbing another man to death
inside a Bethlehem apartment last year was sentenced
today to 20 to 40 years in prison.
The court-appointed attorney for
Anthony J. Santos, Mark Refowich, said he intends to
file a motion seeking a new trial, claiming Santos'
former lawyers were ineffective. Santos fired Robert
Patterson and Matthew Potts after the jury found him
guilty of third-degree murder in February.
Relatives of the 36-year-old
victim, Craig Powell, spoke in court in March when
Santos originally was scheduled to be sentenced. The
proceeding was postponed so he could have drug and
alcohol, psychological and psychiatric evaluations.
Prosecutors said Powell and
Santos argued on and off all day March 9, 2006,
starting when Powell refused to loan Santos $5 for
cigarettes. The spat escalated into a fight that
took place in the kitchen of the Sheets Street
apartment just after midnight March 10, 2006.
During the fight Santos stabbed
Powell in the chest with a three-inch folding knife,
puncturing an artery and piercing one of his lungs.
Powell bled to death at a hospital several hours
later.
A
Northampton County deputy escorts Anthony J. Santos
to his sentencing (Express-Times Photo -
Bill Adams)
