DA: Man Sentenced in Strangling of Long Beach Inmate

Photo: Charles Creekmur. Credit: NCPD

A Brooklyn man was sentenced in the strangling of a Long Beach man while they were in Nassau County Jail in 2012, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s office.

Charles Creekmur, 27, was sentenced to nine years in prison with five years of post-release supervision, said the DA. Creekmur was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter in July before Judge Meryl Berkowitz.

Creekmur was awaiting trial at the East Meadow jail for an attempted robbery in Cedarhurst in 2011, said the DA. Creekmur had tried to hold up his former employer using a BB gun and wearing a mask, cops said.

He was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2012, said the DA.

Creedmur was accused of strangling Antwan Brown, 26, of Long Beach, in a second floor jail cell after an argument, said the DA. Brown suffered several contusions and was pronounced dead by hospital staff shortly after the fight, cops said. Brown had been charged with robbery and assault stemming from an incident in West Hempstead in 2010.

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