By William Cole
Advertiser Staff Writer
A onetime prison guard who admitted taking part in killing two men in a North Shore drug ring in 1997 has received a 100-year minimum prison term from the Hawai‘i Paroling Authority.
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| Styran Rivera had received two 50-year minimum terms, to be served consecutively, in the 1997 murders of two men.
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Styran Rivera was sentenced in November to consecutive life terms with parole. The 36-year-old Rivera pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder for his role in the killings of Steve Tozon, 35, and Paris France, 19.
Tozon was lured to Rivera’s Waialua home, where he was shot in the head by Benjamin Tandal Jr., prosecutors said. Tandal was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for his role in the killing.
France was shot to death because Rivera was angered that France was talking to others about the Tozon murder, prosecutors said. France’s body was found in a fallow sugar cane field above Hale‘iwa. The parole board set 50-year minimum terms on each conviction.
Minimum terms also were set by the parole board for:
 Matthew Clement, who received a 40-year minimum term for the 1999 murder of a Pearl City woman in her home. Eleanor Wimberly, 43, was shot five times in the head, face and chest with a .22-caliber pistol. Clement, 28, also was found guilty by a jury of related crimes of burglary and a firearms offense.
Jason McCubbins, 28, who avoided a life term in prison by cooperating with prosecutors and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and manslaughter for his role in the 1993 abduction, rape and murder of 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas on the Big Island. McCubbins was given a 16-year minimum term by the parole board.
Eugene Tabag, 33, who was sentenced in 1999 to life in prison with parole after pleading guilty to murdering his 3-month-old son, whose injuries included a fractured skull and broken back. The Nanakuli man was ordered to serve a 25-year minimum prison term by the parole board.
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