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Man faces 8 years in gunfire incident

By TERENCE CORCORAN
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: February 10, 2007)

CARMEL - An illegal immigrant who drove from Texas to Mahopac to reunite with the mother of his three children, only to shoot at her and threaten her new boyfriend with a gun, faces eight years in prison after pleading guilty to a weapon charge.

Marvin Adalborto Sorto, 24, who is from El Salvador, remains in the Putnam County jail while awaiting a scheduled April 4 sentencing, Putnam County District Attorney Kevin L. Wright said in a statement yesterday.

Sorto entered his plea to a single felony count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon before county Judge James Rooney on Wednesday, just before jury selection in his trial was to begin, Wright said.

Police said Sorto drove from Houston to Buckshollow Road on July 16 in an effort to get back with his former girlfriend. When he saw her returning from breakfast with another man, he pulled out a pistol and pressed it against the new boyfriend's stomach while ordering him into a car, police said. He then squeezed off a shot at his ex-girlfriend as she ran away, missing her, they said.

The boyfriend broke free while Sorto got in his car and left, driving to a Route 6 motel, where town police arrested him.

Wright said that if Sorto isn't deported when released from prison, he would face five years' parole. Assistant District Attorney Joseph Charbonneau took the plea.