Monday, January 7, 2008

Porn Producer's Father Sues Suspected Killers

Update @ 12:57 PM: The caption of the suit is: Michael Kocis, Executor of the Estate of Bryan C. Kocis, deceased, vs. Harlow Raymond Cuadra and Joseph Manuel Kerkes.

The Case Number is: 117 of 2008.
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According to breaking news from the Times Leader, the father of a slain porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against the producer’s suspected killers.

Michael Kocis, the father of Bryan Kocis, filed suit against Harlow Raymond Cuadra and Joseph Manuel Kerekes.

Cuadra, 26, and Joseph Kerekes, 34, are charged with homicide in the Jan. 24, 2007, slaying of Kocis, a gay porn producer. Investigators claim the two Virginia men killed Kocis, their rival in the gay porn industry, inside his Dallas Township home and then set the house on fire.

Kocis, 44, was found dead by firefighters.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Michael Kocis, through Sugarloaf-attorney Conrad Falvello, filed the suit in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.

The suit seeks an unspecified amount of damages for wrongful death and destruction of property.