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Former cabdriver given second life sentence

Friday, Nov. 28, 2003 | 9:13 a.m.

A District Court judge on Wednesday handed down a second life sentence to the former Las Vegas cabdriver charged in connection with a string of local cab robberies.

District Judge Joseph Bonaventure sentenced Wagnaw "Kevin" Getahun, 38, to life in prison with the possibility of parole after five years on four kidnapping counts.

Getahun also was sentenced to two- to 42-years on each of two robbery counts.

Getahun had pleaded guilty to the charges. In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors dropped six additional felony counts with which he had initially been charged.

This was the second life sentence handed down to Getahun in less than two weeks.

District Judge Donald Mosley on Nov. 19 sentenced Gethaun to life in prison on charges in a separate case stemming from an August crime spree in which several cabbies and passengers were robbed at gunpoint.

Getahun will be eligible for parole in that case in 20 years.

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