The Region - News from Feb. 22, 1987

A 25-year-old Tulsa, Okla., man who was hired by a teen-age Soviet immigrant to kill the young man’s father was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 6 1/2 years in prison. Richard Gregg was convicted in October of attempted voluntary manslaughter with use of a deadly weapon in connection with the 1985 knife attack on Albert Junatanov, a Hollywood restaurateur. At the same time, the Los Angeles Superior Court jury acquitted the son, Sociz Junatanov, 19, saying he was an abused child who had acted in self-defense.