Ex-US soldier gets consecutive life sentences for killing couple to fund Venezuela mercenary fighting plans

A erstwhile U.S. worker who fought successful Ukraine was handed 2 beingness sentences for sidesplitting a Florida mates during a robbery intended to money his question to Venezuela to combat the authorities of Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Craig Austin Lang, 35, was convicted successful September connected national charges including robbery and conspiring to termination persons successful a overseas country. He was antecedently extradited from Ukraine, wherever helium had volunteered to combat against Russian separatists.

"Lang’s alleged behaviour is shocking successful its scope and its callous disregard for quality life," Nicole Argentieri, main lawman adjunct lawyer wide of the Department of Justice’s transgression division, antecedently said successful a statement.

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Craig Austin Lang, an ex-US soldier, was extradited from Ukraine to the US to look aggregate national indictments, including murder, going backmost to 2019.  (East2West)

Lang and different erstwhile soldier, Alex Jared Zwiefelhofer, killed Serafin "Danny" Lorenzo Jr. and Deana Lorenzo – who traveled from Brooksville to Estero – successful April 2018 during what the mates believed was a gathering to bargain guns advertised connected "Armslist," an online marketplace, national prosecutors said.

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Craig Austin Lang (left), an ex-US soldier, is accused of sidesplitting Deana Lorenzo (right) and her hubby successful a treble homicide successful 2019 earlier helium allegedly fled the state to combat arsenic a mercenary successful overseas countries.  (Special to The News-Press)

The brace had brought $3,000 and were ambushed successful a parking batch and changeable aggregate times, authorities said. The robbery was intended to money question plans for Lang and Zwiefelhofer to Venezuela, wherever they hoped to articulation a paramilitary group.

Lang was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army successful 2014 earlier joining the far-right Ukrainian nationalist subject radical known arsenic Right Sector 2 years later, according to The Washington Post.

Craig Austin Lang, an ex-US soldier, faces 3 national indictments successful 3 states going backmost to 2019 aft warring extradition from Ukraine for years, the Department of Justice said.  (East2West)

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Lang and Zwiefelhofer had antecedently fought successful Ukraine and intended to question to combat successful different conflicts.

Zwiefelhofer was convicted successful 2024 and sentenced to 2 consecutive beingness presumption successful prison.