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'Preppie Killer' Chambers gets 19 years

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Robert Chambers is led in handcuffs into Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment on charges of selling cocaine. Chambers pleaded guilty Monday, Aug. 11, 2008 to selling drugs and could receive 19 years and four months in prison when he is sentenced on Sept. 2. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)

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NEW YORK - (WABC) -- New York "preppie killer" Robert Chambers is heading back to prison: He's been sentenced to 19 years after pleading guilty to a drug charge.

Chambers already was imprisoned 15 years for strangling a young woman in Central Park during what he called rough sex.

He was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan after reaching a plea deal last month on criminal sale of a controlled substance and assault on a police officer. He would have faced life in prison if he had been convicted after trial.

The 41-year-old Chambers and girlfriend Shawn Kovell were arrested in October at their apartment on charges of dealing cocaine. Kovell pleaded guilty in December; she was spared prison and allowed to enter a drug rehabilitation program.