Queens woman admits hiding gun at mom's Holtsville home

A Middle Village woman who admitted hiding a murder weapon at her mother's Holtsville home pleaded guilty Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court to drug and weapon possession charges.

Leah Reynolds, 24, who prosecutors said provided the gun used by her boyfriend and another man in the July 2008, murders of two men following a drug deal gone bad, is expected to be sentenced in Kew Gardens on Feb. 26 to serve 3-1/2 years in prison.

Her attorney could not be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday.

Reynolds was sentenced last month in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead to serve 6 years in prison after she pleaded guilty last year to first-degree hindering prosecution and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon for her role in the murders of Joseph Odierno, 35, of Miller Place, and Jairo Santos, 22, of Washington Heights.

At her sentencing in Riverhead, a prosecutor called Reynolds "diabolic."

Suffolk prosecutors said Reynolds and her boyfriend, Darren Lynch, 29, had a stockpile of weapons and drugs at their Middle Village apartment.

It was there that Lynch and a second man, James Wall, 30, of Coram, killed Odierno and Santos, then chopped up their bodies. Lynch and Wall buried the body parts at the home of Lynch's parents in Coram and at a nearby sump, Suffolk prosecutors said.

Lynch and Wall were convicted in November in Riverhead of murder and kidnapping. Lynch was sentenced in December to life in prison without parole. Wall was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. Reynolds did not testify at Lynch's and Wall's trial.