Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced on Feb. 29 that a truck driver from New Rochelle was sentenced to six months of incarceration for stealing a semi-tractor trailer containing more than $32,000 worth of alcohol from a lot off Interstate-87 in Yonkers.
The defendant, Kelvin Garcia Liriano, 28, pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2023, to Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a felony. The defendant was also sentenced to five years of probation and is required to pay $42,793.76 in restitution.
On March 21, 2023, at approximately 1:15 a.m., the defendant stole a $45,000 semi-tractor trailer containing 1,560 cases of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, a liquor-based beverage, worth $32,793, from a lot in Yonkers located off I-87. The defendant drove the vehicle to Brooklyn where the vehicle was later found by police abandoned and empty on Atlantic Avenue.
New York State Police from the Hawthorne Barracks arrested the defendant in the Bronx on April 17, 2023, following a joint investigation with the Westchester County District Attorney’s Criminal Investigator Squad. The Yonkers Police Department and the New Rochelle Police Department assisted with the investigation.
The case was before State Supreme Court Justice James McCarty in Westchester County Court and prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Adrian Murphy, Auto Crimes Coordinator in the Trials & Investigations Division.
