5 life sentences for ex-Marine in Arlington attacks

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A judge formally imposed a prison sentence of five life terms, plus 168 years, for Jorge Torrez, a former Marine convicted of robbery, rape and sodomy charges by an Arlington County jury in October.

The jury had recommended that sentence for the 22-year-old Torrez, who is also linked through DNA evidence to the 2005 slayings of two young girls in Zion, Ill., where he used to live. He has not been charged in the Illinois case.

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