April 3, 2015 — Two former seafood processors have pleaded guilty to fatally beating their co-worker in Unalaska.
Instead of going through another trial, Denison Soria and Leonardo Bongolto, Jr., will serve 40 to 70 months in prison for the death of Jonathan Adams. He passed away after a fight at the Bering Fisheries bunkhouse in 2012.
Defense attorneys painted Adams' death as an accident during a trial in Unalaska last fall. The jury acquitted Soria, 43, and Bongolto, 37, of second-degree murder, but they couldn't reach a verdict on lesser charges of assault, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. A new trial was set for this month.