54-year-old Ganesh Shenoy who fled to India after causing a deadly crash in Hicksville in 2005 pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Just 14 days after the crash, Shenoy boarded a plane at John F Kennedy International Airport to Mumbai, India and stayed in India for the next 20 years. In September 2025, Shenoy was extradited back to the US for his trial.
Shenoy was seen smiling as he entered the Nassau County court for his sentencing. “You took my hero from me, the one person that I looked up to,” Krystina Morrone, the daughter of slain motorist Philip Mastropolo, told Shenoy. “I had to graduate high school without him, get married without him, and have two children that will never know their grandfather,” she said, adding that her brother was suffering from leukemia. "My dad worked two jobs so my mother could stay home with my brother with leukemia," she said. "He was a man who deserved to grow old with his family."
