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Published: Jan 19, 2007 - 09:19:33 am CST

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Nayor to serve 4 years in prison
By Teresa Moore/The Ironton Tribune

Friday, January 19, 2007 9:19 AM CST

An illegal alien will get the proverbial “three hots and a cot” for the next four years, compliments of the Ohio taxpayer and much to the ire of some local officials.

Santosh Nayor, 48, who listed a Miamis-burg address on some official records but is originally from India, was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison. Nayor was convicted last month of twice threatening to kill Assistant Lawrence County Prosecutor Mack Anderson.

In handing down his sentence, Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Frank McCown noted that repeated attempts to involve the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service failed because the pleas for help in deporting Nayor fell on deaf federal ears.

“Why should the citizens of Ohio bear your expenses?” Mccown asked. “They should not. I am not much impressed with immigration. They're not going to help us. It makes no sense a convicted alien who is here illegally has more rights than a U.S. citizen. It is beyond me.”*

“I am ready to leave,” Nayor told the court.

Nayor was supposed to have attended an immigration status hearing in Georgia last year but missed the hearing because he was in jail in Lawrence County, something Special Prosecutor Brenda Neville noted during Nayor's arraignment.

McCown said he had little choice but to send Nayor to prison. A convicted criminal with a lengthy rap sheet, Nayor is not a candidate for community controlled sanctions.Since federal authorities are not interested in deporting Nayor, he will have to go to prison. McCown said he thought prison was a poor choice for a man who claimed in court he had been repeatedly assaulted by other inmates at the Lawrence County Jail and who was recently described by a Lawrence County Corrections Officer as being “very talkative.”

Nayor told the court Wednesday he was innocent of the charges against him and was not a violent person. McCown disagreed and mentioned several crimes listed on documents in Nayor's file.

“Domestic violence in Illinois, an assault. Of course you're not a violent person. Nothing is ever your fault, is it?” McCown said sarcastically.

“Trouble seems to follow you. You had trouble in Georgia, there's some of that contained in here but of course you've never done anything criminal in your life. Well, I've had enough of you.”

Nayor was arrested in the South Point area on a DUI charge in August 2006 and was arrested a second time in September on charges of trespassing, public indecency and disorderly conduct.

While in Lawrence County Municipal Court in October attending to these charges, Nayor told Lawrence County Sheriff's deputies he wanted to kill Anderson. Jurors took four hours last month to convict nayor of the two counts of retaliation after a trial in which he represented himself, along with assistance from court-appointed attorney David Reid Dillon. Municipal court officials said all of the charges against Nayor on their level have been resolved.

He remains in the Lawrence County Jail awaiting transfers to a state facility.