Garcia
WHITE PLAINS – A Yonkers man faces up to 25 years to life in state prison without parole following his guilty plea to murder in connection with the murder of a Yonkers man. Joaquin Recinos Garcia, 27, was arrested following an intensive investigation.
On August 24, 2015, a jogger running along Route 133 in Ossining found the decomposing body of Luis Blanco, 62, by the side of the road. An autopsy determined he had been stabbed several times and suffered a bullet wound to the back of his head.
An investigation by Ossining Police and the Westchester District Attorney’s Office revealed Garcia owned Blanco money. The two were scheduled to meet on August 19 of last year and when Blanco threatened to inform Garcia’s employer, Garcia became angry, brandished a screwdriver and demanded Blanco hand over all his valuables. Garcia then stabbed Blanco several times and another man, who is an unindicted co-conspirator, who was in the back seat, shot the victim in the back of the head.
Garcia was arrested on September 18.
