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Franklin Man Sentenced To 60 Years In State Prison For 2015 Murder

December 21, 2017 Crime News

Jahmmel Cephas, 35, of Franklin, was sentenced to 60 years in state prison on Dec. 21 for the Valentine’s Day 2015 murder of a Perth Amboy man. Phto: Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

A 35-year-old township man was sentenced to 60 years in state prison Dec. 21 for the murder of a Perth Amboy man on Valentine’s Day in 2015.

Jahmmel Cephas was sentenced in New Brunswick by Superior Court Judge Colleen Flynn to 50 years in state prison for aggravated manslaughter, plus 10 years in prison for begin a certain person prohibited from having a weapon, according to a press release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

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