Updated at 10:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Pearl Harbor naval base cashier's killer sentenced
Advertiser Staff
A state judge today sentenced Jenaro Torres to serve 15 years to life in prison for the 1992 murder of Pearl Harbor naval base cashier Ruben Gallegos.Circuit Judge Michael Town ordered Torres, 58, to serve a minimum of 15 years because a firearm was used in the killing.
Torres was convicted earlier of robbing Gallegos of $80,000 and served two years in federal prison, but he was never charged with murder until the state attorney general's cold case unit filed the homicide charge in 2005.
A jury convicted Torres of murder on March 21.
Torres was a Pearl Harbor security officer at the time of the offense. He was arrested May 1, 1992, just hours after the robbery when he tried to drive on to Pearl Harbor. Found in his car were a loaded gun, a bag containing $78,000 of the stolen cash, and Gallegos' wallet and hairbrush.
