Overview
- Pena pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of disinterring a human body and received a three-year prison term that will run concurrently with his existing 17–20 year sentence.
- He was convicted in mid-May of rape, kidnapping and related charges and is currently serving a 17–20 year term at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.
- Prosecutors say phone location data, surveillance of Pena’s work truck and tow-bed footage, a recorded tow call, and alerts from a human-remains detection dog linked him to the pickup and disposal of Matos.
- Alenny Matos’ remains were found in May 2020 in a trash bag in Stony Brook Reservation, identified by dental records, and postmortem toxicology detected fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, and mercury.
- After his concurrent sentence Pena will face five years of probation with GPS monitoring and sex-offender registration and Matos’ family delivered victim impact statements describing lasting harm to her son and relatives.