Fed escapee with tie to body found in Peabody gets added prison time

LEXINGTON, Ky. ? An inmate with ties to a murdered woman whose body was found behind a Peabody school in 2006 has been sentenced to an additional 51 months in federal prison for escaping from federal custody in 2010 while being transferred to a federal prison in Pennsylvania.U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood handed down 39-year-old Derek Albert Capozzi’s prison term on Monday in federal court in Lexington. The sentence will run consecutively with the 23-year sentence he is serving for possession and use of a firearm during a crime of violence and a 30-year sentence for his role in the 1996 murder of a potential government witness in Massachusetts.According to Daily Item staff reports, prosecutors said Capozzi belonged to a Mafia-affiliated crime gang on the North Shore called the DeConlogero Crew. He was convicted in Massachusetts in 2005 of being an accessory to the 1996 murder of 19-year-old Aislin Silva, a Medford resident the gang suspected of cooperating with investigators.Capozzi, of Boston, was sentenced to 23 years for helping to dismember and hide the woman’s body behind the Welch School in Peabody, where it lay undiscovered for 10 years.Pick up Tuesday’s Daily Item for further details.