ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A 38-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a 1998 murder in a drug-trafficking conspiracy from the Rochester area.
Pablo Plaza, of Rochester, faces at least 20 years in prison at sentencing scheduled Sept. 2.
Authorities say he and others stabbed Francisco Santos to death at the Seneca Indian Reservation in Erie County in October 1998.
According to prosecutors, the murder was related to trafficking in cocaine, heroin and marijuana. They say the drug conspiracy extended from 1993 to March 2011, when Plaza and five others from the Rochester area were indicted.
Plaza also admitted he was present when Ryan Cooper, whose body was never found, was beaten to death in 1999.
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