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STATE LEGISLATORS DISCUSS L.I. SOUND
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Kidnapper of Port woman gets 10 years Devanand Lachman, wife each pleaded guilty in ’15 kidnapping BY LU K E TOR R A N C E A man from Bayside was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and torturing a Port Washington woman, according to the Queens County district attorney’s office. Daisy Machuca was cleaning the home of" Devanand Lachman on Feb. 13, 2015, when she was abducted by him and an unapprehended male, the district attorney’s office said. The office gave this account: Lachman and his wife, Ambar, accused Machuca of stealing cash and a gold chain; Machuca was struck by Lachman several times and had her feet burned with a welding blowtorch. Ambar threatened to have Machuca killed. Last week, Queens Supreme Court Justice Robert C. Kohm sentenced Devanand Lachman, 35,
to 10 years in prison followed by five years’ post-release" supervision and Ambar, 35, to five years’ probation. The couple pleaded guilty in September 2017 —" Devanand Lachman to second-degree kidnapping and Ambar to unlawful imprisonment. “The defendants suspected their housekeeper [Machuca] — who had been working for them for several months — had stolen from their home,”"Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said in a statement. “But the real crime, in this case, occurred when the defendants decided to take the law into their own hands by abducting the woman.” Machuca arrived at the Lachman’s home to clean on Feb. 13, 2015, at 8 a.m., according to a report from the Queens district Continued on Page 51
PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE
Visitors snap photos of floating lanterns at the Long Island Water Lantern Festival Saturday at North Hempstead Beach Park.
Lantern festival lights up Port Washington BY LU K E TORRANCE
began to light up. Thousands of people from across Long Island made their As the sun disappeared way down to the water’s edge over the tops of trees in North at sunset Saturday to set lanHempstead Beach Park, the terns afloat as part of the firstwater in Hempstead Harbor ever Long Island Water Lantern
Festival. “The line to get in was a little long, but otherwise it was great,” said Haemar, who was visiting from Bayside with her boyfriend and declined to give Continued on Page 61
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