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Ex-FDNY medic sentenced in fatal NY hit-and-run

By Rebecca Baker
lohud.com

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A Hawthorne man was sentenced today to six months in jail for the hit-and-run death of an Elmsford father of five last year.

Scott Desimone, a former New York City emergency medical technician, hit Manuel Guaman Saca, 51, with a rental car early on March 1, 2008, along Saw Mill River Road (Route 9A).

Saca, a father of five, was walking to his job at a newspaper distribution center off Hunter Lane when he was struck. Desimone did not stop to help the injured man, who died along the road. A truck driver found Saca’s body in a snow-covered roadside ditch.

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