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| Balloon Boy dad beg to keep wife out of jail |
| By coloradoan.com |
| Published: 12/22/2009 |
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Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene on Wednesday will "beg" a Larimer County judge to spare his wife a jail sentence for her part in the October hoax that transfixed the nation, his lawyer said. Heene will take "all and full" responsibility for his actions and knows Judge Stephen Schapanski could send him to jail two days before Christmas, Heene's attorney David Lane said. Lane said Richard Heene is more likely to receive a jail sentence than his wife. "You know, what happened here has spun so wildly out of control that nobody had any inkling that this would be the worldwide event that it turned into," Lane said in an interview Monday morning. "Certainly Richard never imagined this in his wildest dreams." Richard and Mayumi Heene pleaded guilty Nov. 13 in connection with the Oct. 15 incident in which they told the world their son had floated away from their Fort Collins home in a UFO-shaped helium balloon. Falcon wasn't aboard the balloon when it landed near Denver International Airport, 50 miles away. Instead, the boy reappeared at his home later that afternoon, and his parents said he had been hiding in the garage attic. But the immediate outpouring of support for the family turned to skepticism and outright hostility hours later when Falcon said during a CNN interview that they did it "for the show." It was that admission, according to investigators, that turned law enforcement from believers to skeptics. The two face paying a "substantial" amount of restitution in the case, according to the judge. The Federal Aviation Administration has also proposed fining the couple $11,000 for launching an unauthorized aircraft, Lane said. FAA spokesman Mike Fergus on Monday confirmed the agency has completed its investigation but said he could not comment. He said the agency could only release that information in response to a federal Freedom of Information Act request, which might take about 20 business days to process. Read More. |
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