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PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- Three men recovered blameworthy of sidesplitting a household successful Washington authorities successful 2017 implicit alleged drugs and wealth were sentenced to beingness successful situation without without the anticipation of parole.
Superior Court Judge Kevin Hull connected Tuesday sentenced Danie Kelly Jr., 45, Robert Watson III, 52, and Watson's member Johnny Watson, 50, aft the victims' household members spoke successful court, the Kitsap Sun reported.
Each antheral was sentenced to 4 beingness sentences, 1 for each number of first-degree murder. They were each sentenced to further clip for attempted execution convictions and firearm enhancements. A assemblage successful April recovered them guilty.
Christale Careaga, 37, Hunter Schaap and Johnathon Higgins, some 16, were recovered dormant successful their burned location westbound of Seattle connected the Kitsap Peninsula connected Jan. 27, 2017. The remains of John Careaga, 43, were recovered wrong a scorched motortruck astatine a histrion farm.
The Careagas owned a palmy Mexican edifice successful Bremerton. In tribunal documents, detectives said John Careaga besides brought cocaine from California each mates months to merchantability locally.
A adjacent person of his began selling the cocaine to Robert Watson, whom detectives identified arsenic a person successful a section section of the Bandidos motorcycle club, authorities said. Investigators person said the killings weren’t related to the club.
Careaga’s person yet stopped selling, and the adjacent clip Careaga went to California to get the drugs, Robert Watson traveled determination “on John’s heels,” and dialog betwixt the 2 intensified until the time of the homicides, according to investigators.
John Careaga’s lawyer told authorities that Careaga had hidden hundreds of thousands of dollars underneath his home, but that wealth was ne'er found.
According to the tribunal records, detectives said much than $300,000 had been deposited into Robert Watson's accounts successful 2017 and that determination were “numerous currency deposits that the root could not beryllium identified.”
Kelly was associated with the Bandidos arsenic a “hang-around,” and had been a bully person of Careaga earlier a falling out, detectives said.
A neighbour of the Careagas heard gunshots astatine the location the time of the murders and reported seeing John Careaga’s motortruck speeding away, with Kelly astatine the instrumentality and different car pursuing adjacent behind.
Defense attorneys during the proceedings worked to formed uncertainty connected the timeline and cellphone towers utilized to way the trio’s movements and argued that nary grounds existed of thing being taken from the Careaga home.
Relatives of the victims successful tribunal described the symptom that has been inflicted connected the blended household since their deaths.
John Careaga was described arsenic a loving begetter and uncle who would entertain the 9 children who relied connected him. Crystal Careaga was described arsenic a personable and contagious “bright light;" Johnathon Higgins was a “big teddy bear;" and Hunter Schaap, was noted for his courage, peculiarly the nighttime of the murders erstwhile helium called 911 to study intruders astatine the household home.
Kelly and the Watson brothers declined the accidental to talk successful court.
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