By Associated Press - Friday, April 8, 2016

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - The last of five people charged in the kidnapping and death of a Fort Collins woman have been sentenced to long prison terms.

The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports (https://tinyurl.com/j36ousf) a judge sentenced 36-year-old Jose Rosario to 40 years in prison Thursday. Twenty-two-year-old Chataigner McCaffrey-Pickett was sentenced to 32 years.

Both accepted deals with prosecutors. McCaffrey-Pickett pleaded guilty to first-degree assault. The charge against Rosario wasn’t immediately available.



They were charged in the 2014 abduction and beating death of 28-year-old Andrea Bartmess. Authorities say she had gone to a home to buy drugs but was taken to a barn, tied up, choked and stomped on.

Three other people were sentenced earlier to prison terms ranging from 12 to 75 years for their roles in the death.

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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan, https://www.coloradoan.com

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