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| Life in prison for city drug dealer |
| By timesunion.com |
| Published: 02/12/2010 |
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By BRENDAN J. LYONS, Senior writer First published in print: Friday, February 12, 2010 ALBANY -- A city man who was once a suspect in the unsolved murder of a government witness in a North Swan Street bar was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for selling drugs. John "Johnny Cat" Van Hoesen, who has a lengthy criminal record and was profiled in a Times Union series five years ago on dangerous parolees, was convicted of drug conspiracy charges in January 2009 following a jury trial in U.S. District Court in Albany. The conviction, coupled with Van Hoesen's lengthy criminal history, resulted in a mandatory sentence of life by U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe, according to federal prosecutors. Van Hoesen's life imprisonment comes less than a week after Ernest Conley, a former leader of Albany's notorious Jungle Junkies street gang, was stabbed several times by a fellow inmate at an out-of-state federal prison. Conley had testified for the government against Van Hoesen at last year's trial and is serving a reduced sentence of 14 years in prison. He also had faced life in prison. Conley, who was in protective custody when the stabbing took place, also was expected to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their pending case against Albany's Original Gangster Killers gang. The OGK gang from the city's South End were fierce rivals of the Jungle Junkies and many of Albany's shootings, murders and violence dating back years have been attributed to the bloody feud. Asked about the Conley assault, his attorney, Kevin A. Luibrand, said Conley was stabbed twice in the arm and twice in the back. Conley suffered a collapsed lung and "has no idea at all" why he was targeted, Luibrand said. Read More. |
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