SOUTH BRONX — The landlord convicted of manslaughter for killing one of his tenants and dumping her body upstate was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison.
Nasean Bonie, 30, was the landlord of 663 Jefferson Place in Claremont and had been arguing about overdue rent with 35-year-old tenant Ramona Moore for weeks before July 31, 2012, when she was last seen going inside the building to get her neighbor a mango, according to law enforcement officials and court documents.
A loud noise was then heard, and Moore was never seen alive again, the Bronx District Attorney's Office said.
Bonie was arrested for her death on May 29, 2014, and right before his trial was about to start in April 2015, the remains of Moore were found upstate in Orange County.
He was convicted of manslaughter by a jury on July 25 after a four-week trial and will now serve 25 years in prison with five years of post-release supervision, according to the Bronx DA’s Office.
The sentence will run consecutively with a four-year stint Bonie is currently serving for second-degree assault for beating his wife on July 10, 2012, shortly before Moore disappeared.
