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A sick trio were sentenced Wednesday to decades in prison over a Big Apple gay bar drugging scheme that left two men dead.

Jayqwan Hamilton, 37, Jacob Barroso, 32, and Robert DeMaio, 36, were handed the sentence by a Manhattan judge for facilitating the years-long fentanyl-wielding robbery plot.

The men, who were found guilty back in February, were nabbed after Julio Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker, and John Umberger, a 33-year-old political consultant, turned up dead in 2022 — both after barhopping in Hell’s Kitchen.

All three men were convicted in Ramirez’s murder, while Hamilton and DeMaio were also sentenced over the other man’s death.

Robert DeMaio Jacob Barroso and Jayqwan Hamilton in court. Steven Hirsch
Julio Ramirez, 25, was found dead from an overdose in a cab on the Lower East Side.
John Umberger at a rooftop bar in NYC on May 27, 2022. AP
Robert DeMaio Steven Hirsch
Jayqwan Hamilton Steven Hirsch
Jacob Barroso Steven Hirsch

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