{"id":2973,"date":"2025-10-16T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2973\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:31:14","slug":"co-workers-convicted-of-murder-in-lower-merion-home-invasion-each-sentenced-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2973\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-workers convicted of murder in Lower Merion home invasion each sentenced to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/upper-moreland-police-arrest-second-employee-of-junkluggers-willow-grove-involved-in-a-home-invasion-and-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kelvin Roberts Jr.<\/a>, 42, of Philadelphia, Jeremy Fuentes, 26, of Philadelphia, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/jenkintown-man-arrested-in-connection-with-a-home-invasion-and-homicide-in-lower-merion-da-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Charles Edward Fulforth<\/a>, 41, of the Jenkintown section of Abington Township,\u00a0were each sentenced today for the 2024 Lower Merion home invasion homicide that left Andrew Gaudio dead and his mother, Bernadette Gaudio, seriously injured, the Montgomery County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced.<\/p>\n<p>Fulforth and Roberts received maximum sentences for their charges. Fulforth was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus a consecutive 60 to 120 years. Roberts was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus a consecutive 55.5 to 120 years. They\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/jenkintown-man-convicted-of-home-invasion-and-homicide-in-lower-merion-da-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">were each convicted in July<\/a>\u00a0of first-degree murder and related crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Fuentes was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus a consecutive 4 to 20 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/third-employee-of-junkluggers-willow-grove-convicted-of-second-degree-murder-in-lower-merion-home-invasion-da-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">He was found guilty<\/a> of Second-Degree Murder and related charges last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was cold-blooded evil, you are a predator and a danger to society,\u201d Judge Risa Vetri Ferman said, addressing Fulforth directly. \u201cThis court does not see a drop of remorse, and you are truly the worst defendant I have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trio, each of whom were coworkers at Junkluggers in the Willow Grove section of Upper Moreland Township,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/junkluggers-willow-grove-co-workers-held-for-trial-for-participating-in-gun-trafficking-organization-on-top-of-homicide-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">received additional charges earlier this year<\/a> for participating in a gun trafficking organization that dealt in 3D-printed ghost guns, suppressors and machine gun conversion devices<\/p>\n<p>For all the latest news, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/glensidelocal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or sign up for Glenside Local\u2019s \u201cDaily Buzz\u201d newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photos: Montco DA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelvin Roberts Jr., 42, of Philadelphia, Jeremy Fuentes, 26, of Philadelphia, and\u00a0Charles Edward Fulforth, 41, of the Jenkintown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}