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Man gets life sentence after body found in Greensboro, district attorney says

A judge sentenced 34-year-old Anthony Van Long to life in prison without parole for the murder of Jonathan Roderick Jeffries.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — A man was sentenced to life without parole last Wednesday for a 2020 murder, according to the district attorney. 

You may remember back on July 21, 2020, a body was found on the 3200 block of Orange Street in Greensboro. Police identified the man as Jonathan Roderick Jeffries.

After an investigation by the Greensboro Police Department's Violent Criminal Apprehension Team, officers arrested Anthony Van Long, 34, and charged him with first-degree murder. 

After almost three weeks-long trial, the jury found Van Long guilty and the Honorable Lora C. Cubbage, Superior Court Judge of Guilford County, sentenced Van Long to Life in Prison without Parole on May 10th, 2023. 

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