People v. Pons

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J.) rendered May 7, 1987, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of three counts of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to three concurrent terms of from 25 years to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant Pons and co-defendant Anthony Morgan, were convicted of the deaths of three individuals in an arson fire at a numbers betting parlor at 1625 Weschester Avenue in the Bronx. Pons, who was in charge of "enforcement” for a large numbers operation, recruited the People’s main witness, William Diaz, to carry out…