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Jesse James Hollywood guilty in murder, kidnapping
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The drug dealer whose story inspired the movie "Alpha Dog" was convicted Wednesday of kidnapping and first-degree murder for ordering the slaying of a West Hills teen-ager.
A Santa Barbara jury found Jesse James Hollywood was the ringleader of a group of drug users who kidnapped and killed Nicholas Markowitz, 15, in 2001, when they failed to collect a $1,200 drug debt from his older brother Ben.
The drug ring held Markowitz for several days, taking him to parties and even introducing him to several people before walking him into a Goleta park, shooting him to death and burying him in a shallow grave.
The triggerman in the murder is on death row. One other person has been sentenced to life, and one of the group has been released. Hollywood himself evaded capture for several years by fleeing to Brazil. He was caught in 2005.
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