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Mass. man sentenced in R.I. abduction

Faces deportation after time served

By Laura Crimaldi

 |  Associated Press  

  March 31, 2012

A Chinese national living in Massachusetts was sentenced to a year in prison for charges that he and a cohort kidnapped a college classmate from his luxury Providence apartment, stuffed him in a bag, and drove him across state lines as part of a plot to steal his $80,000 Porsche. Zhenpeng “Todd’’ Hu, 25, of Malden Mass., faced up to life in prison for the April 2 kidnapping of Xianglong “Alson’’ Wu, but was granted leniency because he showed remorse.

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