Man previously convicted for murder and escaping prison gets 30 years for attempted kidnapping
A Georgetown County (S.C.) jury convicted a Garden City Beach man for attempting to kidnap a woman and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. Jeremiah Anthony Dicapua, 70, was given the maximum sentence for an attempted kidnapping charge, said Alicia Richardson, the Georgetown County deputy solicitor who prosecuted the case along with Liz Smith, an assistant solicitor, for the 15th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
He must serve at least 85% of his 30 year sentence before he is eligible for parole and once free must register as a sex offender.
According to the solicitor, Dicapua was convicted of murder in 1980 in Horry County where he received a life sentence. In 1996, Dicapua was convicted of escape in Richland County after he fled from a facility there while serving his sentence for murder. He was found in Maryland. He was paroled in 2000. However, in the 2000s, Dicapua also served prison time for drug charges involving crack cocaine, and his parole for the murder charge was revoked and he was held until his release in 2015.
The recent incident was reported on June 10, 2018, when a vacationing woman told police that a man got out of his vehicle and attempted to abduct her while she was jogging on South Waccamaw Drive ... the woman first noticed him when he stopped his vehicle and tried to talk to her ... the woman said he then reached for her twice before forcefully grabbing her in an attempt to take her. A witness told investigators he observed what appeared to be a small knife in Dicapua’s hand.
The woman was able to escape thanks to a self-defense class she had recently taken, the release said.
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