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Student pilot sentenced for airplane theft
U.S. District Judge Charles Shaw chastised Adam Dylan Leon, 31, for stealing a four-seat Cessna 172 from an Ontario flying school April 6 and flying it across the Canada-U.S. border.
"This is very serious," Shaw said Tuesday. "I think this is an extraordinary situation in terms of cost and the hours involved. And it posed a significant disruption to government."
The sentencing comes after Leon pleaded guilty in August to charges of interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, importation of a stolen aircraft and illegal entry into the United States.
With Leon ignoring requests from border protection and military airplanes during a 7 1/2-hour pursuit, six Midwestern cities were put on alert and the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison was evacuated as a precaution, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said Wednesday.
The Post-Dispatch said attorney Lucille Liggett, who represents Leon, alleges her client suffers from severe depression as a result of his parents' deaths in a 2002 car crash.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/04/2009
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Posted Comments:
11-05-2009 08:07
John wrote:
His parents passed 7 years ago is no reason to be that stupid. He should get up and get on with his own life.
11-05-2009 00:20
HERBY wrote:
STUDENT PILOT
HOW COME OUR F-15'S DID NOT INTERCEPT HIM?
11-04-2009 17:49
wrote:
Rich kid gets prison time. Wow, I am amazed.
11-04-2009 17:02
wrote:
leon
should have shot him down
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