« Photo/Cars in fatal crash were registered in R.I. | Today | Photo: Fatal 95 wreck from the air »

October 31, 2007

Station fire: Derderian finishes community service

Jeffrey Derderian has finished -- and exceeded -- the 500 hours of community service he was ordered to do after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter charges in the Station nightclub fire.

Derderian, one of two brothers who had owned the club, completed 534 hours of community service, the Rhode Island Judiciary said in a news release this afternoon.

An Oct. 22 letter from the Phoenix Society, an organization that helps burn survivors, said that Derderian had performed 402 hours of service. Another Oct. 22 letter from West Greenwich Fire and Rescue showed he had done 132 hours of community service.

Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darigan Jr. "has accepted the correspondence as verification that Derderian has fulfilled his court-ordered obligation. No further court reviews are planned," the news release said.

In the last update, on Sept. 1, Derderian had at the time completed 446 hours.

One hundred people died in the fire and in September 2006, Derderian and his brother Michael pleaded no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Michael Derderian is serving a four-year term at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston. Jeffrey received a suspended setnence, ordered to perform the community service and serve three years’ probation.

Read more about the Station nightclub fire here.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 4:21 PM | Permalink

Comments

Colin of Attleboro, MA | October 31, 2007 6:42 PM link

Post a comment

Please be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish.

Name:

Email Address:

URL:
Remember Me? YesNo

Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)