Stoughton Man Gets 20 Years For Kidnapping Scheme

BOSTON, MA — A Stoughton man will spend two decades behind bars for his role in a 2016 kidnapping that occurred in Quincy.

Sedrick Oliveira, 26, was sentenced in U.S. District Court Thursday to 20 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In March, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping.

In October 2016, a 30-year-old man was kidnapped from the driveway of his Quincy home at Marina Bay after being struck in the head with a revolver as he got out of his truck, and dragged into a nearby sedan. The victim had two children strapped into car seats in his truck, as well as approximately 30 pounds of marijuana at the time of the assault, according to the U.S. Attorneys office.

Once the victim was in the sedan, two masked men, later identified as 23-year-old Diego Pires of Brockton and 20-year-old Malik Bangura of Taunton, drove the victim’s truck, with the children still inside, to a secluded location where they unloaded the marijuana and $20,000 from the victim’s truck, into the sedan. The victim, who was face-down in the backseat of the sedan at gunpoint, begged for his life and the life of the two children who were still in their car seats in the back of his truck.

Pires, Bangura, 23-year-old Yesenia Diaz of Brockton, and Oliveira then drove the sedan with the drugs, cash and the victim, from Quincy to Brockton and called the victim’s wife demanding $100,000. Law enforcement officers spotted the sedan as it drove through Brockton, recognized the vehicle from an August 2016 drive-by shooting, and began to follow it. The four attempted to flee police but ended up abandoning the sedan in a Brockton driveway. The victim escaped, flagged down law enforcement officers, and described to them the secluded location where the truck had been deserted. Law enforcement located the truck with the children inside, who were unharmed, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Diaz was arrested after he was found near the van, Oliveira was arrested in October 2017 in Stoughton, Bangura was arrested in April 2017, and Pires was a fugitive until he was apprehended in October 2017.

Pires was sentenced last week to 201 years in prison, Bangura as sentenced in January to 17 years in prison, and Diaz is scheduled to be sentenced in September.

Information from the U.S. Attorney's office was used in this story.

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