Heene Couple Gets Jail for Balloon Hoax

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Heene Couple Gets Jail for Balloon Hoax
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Wed, 12-23-2009 - 4:57pm
Balloon Boy Parents Richard Heene, Mayumi Heene Get Jail Time, Probation
Richard Heene Gets 90 Days Jail Time, Mayumi Heene Must Serve 20 Days
By SHEILA MARIKAR
Dec. 23, 2009

Richard Heene and Mayumi Heene, the parents behind the balloon boy hoax, will soon float away to jail.


Today, Larimer County, Colo. Judge Stephen Schapanski sentenced the couple behind one of the year's biggest media stunts to a total of 110 days jail and eight years probation. He also prohibited the couple from making any money off the balloon boy fiasco during that time.


Schapanski stated that Richard Heene must spend 30 days in jail beginning Jan. 11, 2010. The remaining 60 days of his 90-day sentence may be carried out under "work release," meaning he can work during the day and spend nights in prison.


"This will be supervised probation," Schapanski said about that part of the sentence. "The terms and conditions will be that Mr. Heene is in fact prohibited from receiving any form of financial benefit -- whether it be media, a book, an article he writes -- anything of that kind that stems from this incident."


The judge also ruled that Richard Heene must write a letter of apology to the community and public service agencies that were roped into the Oct. 15 stunt, perform 100 hours of community service and submit to random drug or alcohol testing.




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Fri, 01-01-2010 - 9:40am

"The dad and family may need some good counseling to move on."


I agree.


It's extremely

 


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Fri, 01-01-2010 - 11:42am

Exactly! If that dad doesn't realize he's going about this whole publicity thing the wrong way, I fear that he'll wait a few years and try another crazy idea that jeopardizes his family and law enforcement.

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Mon, 01-04-2010 - 9:22am
I was glad to see that they can't make any profits from this stunt. I'm still amazed that two grown adult parents could be so self-serving and irresponsible as to use their children to gain notoriety for themselves. This obsession with fame in this country has become a sickness.
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Mon, 01-04-2010 - 5:01pm

Pulling the kids into it was outrageous.

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