BRONX MAN IS SENTENCED TO 19 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR THE DEATH OF AN ELDERLY CO-OP CITY WOMAN

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that under the terms of a plea agreement, 29 year-old Charlie Jones has been sentenced to a determinate term of 19 years imprisonment for the 1997 stabbing death of an elderly Co-op City resident.

Sentence was imposed by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Steven L. Barrett.

Jones, of 140 Bellamy Loop, pled guilty last month to charges of Manslaughter in the 1st degree, for the death of long time Co-op City resident Rosemary Pascente. Jones, who had just been released from jail last September on an unrelated charge, was required by law to provide a DNA sample to authorities. It was through this sample that a connection was made to this case.

In a letter to Judge Barrett from Ann Green, the niece of the deceased, she stated, "We never thought after so many years that the person who murdered my Aunt Rosemary would be captured. We are greatly relieved to have someone answer for the loss of her life and pain he caused others. Justice has certainly been done in my Aunt’s murder with you in prison".

The fatal stabbing occurred on January 5, 1997 at 140 Alcott Place in Co-op City. Pascente was found in her kitchen with multiple stab wounds to her upper body. According to a videotape confession Jones stated he entered the deceased apartment, had a struggle with her and stabbed her with a kitchen knife.

Assistant District Attorney Barbara Chavez of the Investigations Unit prosecuted this case.