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Police: Teen charged with murder in fatal stabbing

Police arrested a Bronx teenager Friday night for the murder of John Hopkins Drago, whose dismembered body was discovered Wednesday inside plastic bags in a shopping cart. Fifteen-year-old Sharell Butler

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Dec 27, 2008, 4:07 PM

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