By iNews Guyana

INEWS GUYANA – A jury has convicted a Brooklyn woman in the death and dismemberment of a woman whose body parts were found on Long Island.

Leah Cuevas was convicted of second-degree murder in the death and dismemberment of Chinelle Latoya Thompson Browne, a Guyanese national. Browne’s dismembered body parts were discovered in Bay Shore and Hempstead in July 2014.

“No Lee! No Lee! What you doing? Oh no! Oh no! . . . I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” were the last words that Chinelle LaToya Thompson Browne cried out to Leah Cuevas, 42, during a July 5 fight over the rent, according to prosecutors.

The next thing their Brownsville neighbors heard were blood-curdling screams — as Cuevas hacked off Browne’s head with “a sharp instrument,” prosecutors said.

Cuevas then dismembered Browne, a Guyanese immigrant and mother of four, and spread her limbs and torso across Nassau and Suffolk counties.

IMAGE: SMITHTOWN, NY -July 24, 2014: This is Leah Cuevas, 42, also of 346 Sumpter Ave., Brooklyn, NY being led out of the Fourth Precinct in Smithtown going to First District Court in Central Islip, NY to be arraigned on murder in the 2nd degree for the killing and dismembered of Chinelle Latoya Thompson Browne of 346 Sumpter Ave., Brooklyn on July 8th in Bay Shore, NY The identity of the dismembered woman found in Bay Shore has been identified as Chinelle Latoya Thompson Browne of 346 Sumpter Ave., Brooklyn. Suffolk County Homicide Squad detectives, with the assistance of the US Marshalls NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force today have arrested Leah Cuevas, 42, also of 346 Sumpter Ave., Brooklyn, in connection with the death of Browne. Cuevas was charged with Murder 2nd Degree, and will be held overnight at the Fourth Precinct. She is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on July 24. The New York City, Nassau County, and Hempstead Village Police Departments, as well as the Nassau and Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office all assisted in this investigation, which is still active. Below is the original release. Incident: Partially Dismembered Body Found in Parking Lot Location: Municipal parking lot, Gibson Street, Bay Shore Date/Time: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 6:50 a.m. Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a woman whose partially dismembered body was found in a parking lot in Bay Shore. Third Precinct police officers responded to a municipal parking lot on Gibson Street at 6:50 a.m. after two people who were walking to the ferry reported finding the body of a female. The body of the woman, who has not been identified, will be taken to the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner to determine the cause of death. (Photo by Victor Alcorn) PHOTO CREDIT GOES TO VICTORALCORN.COM
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