Law enforcement, including the FBI, are pictured in July 2015 in Warren County. P-J file photo

A Jamestown man is headed to prison after assisting in a murder that took place more than a decade ago.

U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced that 43-year-old Matthew Rudy, who was convicted of accessory after the fact, was sentenced to serve five years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael J. Adler and Timothy C. Lynch, who handled the case, stated that on May 27, 2014, Anthony Neubauer kidnapped Joseph Anthony and traveled from Jamestown to property in Pennsylvania owned by Rudy.

Neubauer tricked Anthony into traveling by offering him cocaine.

After arriving in Pennsylvania, Neubauer and Rudy told Anthony they did not have any cocaine, before shooting and killing him, and then burying him on Rudy’s property. Neubauer and Rudy took Anthony to Pennsylvania because they believed he was a cooperator.

On May 27, 2014, Anthony was last seen at the Dash Inn on the 700 block of East Second Street in Jamestown. Then 43 years old, Anthony reportedly left all his belongings at his Broadhead Avenue residence. Numerous searches for the city resident were conducted following his disappearance.

In late June 2015, the FBI executed a federal search warrant in Chandlers Valley, located south of Sugar Grove. Law enforcement from New York and Pennsylvania also descended on Warren County. Federal agents became involved in the case due to the investigation potentially crossing state lines, Jamestown police said at the time.

Neubauer was previously convicted and is awaiting sentencing.

The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the Jamestown Police Department, under the direction of Chief Timothy Jackson and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Acting Special Agent-in-Charge Mark Grimm. Additional assistance was provided by the Warren County, PA, District Attorney’s Office.