Man Who Killed Grandmother For Drug Money Sentenced: PM Patch RI

RHODE ISLAND — Here are some share-worthy stories from the Rhode Island Patch network to discuss this afternoon and evening.

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• Bristol Man Sentenced For Murdering Grandmother For Drug Money: Raymond Paiva will be in prison for 40 years after smothering his grandmother to death with a pillow and robbing her to buy heroin.
• NY Man Caught At TF Green Airport With 29.3 Pounds Of Cocaine: Feds: Prosecutors say federal agents found 12 brick-like packages containing cocaine in Richard Pineda Novas' carry-on luggage.
• Portsmouth Man Shoots At 50-80 Protected Hawks: Feds: Robert Ferreira, 64, shot at federally protected hawks to protect squirrels that visited squirrel feeders on his property, prosecutors say.

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