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Northport man gets prison for fatal crash

John Pappias, 46, was charged with leaving the

Photo credit: SCPD | John Pappias, 46, was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash.

A Suffolk judge told a Northport man his behavior was "unconscionable" Wednesday before sentencing him to 2 to 6 years in prison for hitting a highway worker and leaving him to die in the road.

"What we have here is a total absence of responsibility, a total absence of respect for human life," state Supreme Court Justice C. Randall Hinrichs told John Pappias, 47, before he imposed the sentence.

Pappias,...

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