Monday, June 28, 2010

Long Branch, NJ: Long Branch man, 34, admits fatally strangling girlfriend during argument

By MICHELLE SAHN
STAFF WRITER

A Long Branch man admitted he strangled his girlfriend during an argument in their city home last year.

Noel Montes Lopez, 34, of Westbourne Avenue, pleaded guilty on Thursday to an accusation charging him with aggravated manslaughter, said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw Jr.

In entering his guilty plea, before state Superior Court Judge Thomas F. Scully, sitting in Freehold, Montes Lopez admitted that he and his 33-year-old girlfriend, Yesenia Hernandez Osorio, argued on April 5, 2009, and then he struck her and strangled her.

At his Sept. 17 sentencing, Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Julia Alonso will ask the judge to give the city man a 12-year prison term.

Jeffrey Coghlan, of the Monmouth County public defender's office, represented Montes Lopez

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