WILLIAMSON, W.Va. – An Ohio man has been sentenced to life in prison with the chance for parole after 15 years in the fatal shooting of a coal executive at a West Virginia cemetery.
WCHS-TV reports 22-year-old Anthony Raheem Arriaga of Delphos, Ohio, was sentenced Tuesday in Mingo County Circuit Court. A jury in October found him guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery and two counts of conspiracy in the May 2016 death of Bennett “Ben” Hatfield.
A judge added two consecutive one-to-five-year sentences for robbery and conspiracy to the life sentence for murder.
Hatfield, the ex-CEO and president of Patriot Coal, was visiting his wife’s gravesite in Maher. According to testimony, Arriaga planned to steal Hatfield’s SUV and sell it for parts.
Co-conspirator Brandon Fitzpatrick of Louisa, Kentucky, is set to be sentenced Jan. 18.
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Information from: WCHS-TV, http://www.wchstv.com
