Pa. man gets 10-20 years in prison

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh-area man who had been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a drug-related kidnapping and murder in 2002 has pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge and been sentenced to no more than 20 years in prison.

Judge Jeffery Manning of Allegheny County Common Pleas Court today accepted a third-degree murder plea from Jared Lischner, 30, of Mount Lebanon, and imposed the agreed-upon sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison.

Lischner will get credit for time he has served in prison since his arrested in April 2002 for the murder a month earlier of 19-year-old Andrew Jones.

Lischner and two other men were convicted of killing Jones because they mistakenly believed he had stolen drug money stashed in a Pittsburgh house they sometimes shared.