What an IDIOT!!! - Dude who wrecked Enzo pt2
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What an IDIOT!!! - Dude who wrecked Enzo pt2
Plea deal refused in crash of $1.5 million Ferrari
By ANDREW GLAZER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A Swedish businessman who authorities say crashed a stolen Ferrari sports car worth $1.5 million on Pacific Coast Highway turned down a plea deal today that would have had him spend two years and four months in prison.
"I cannot agree that I stole the car because I didn't," said Bo Stefan Eriksson, 44, speaking through a Swedish interpreter in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Details of the offered plea deal were not immediately released.
Eriksson is charged with three counts of embezzlement, three counts of grand theft and illegal gun possession, all felonies. He also faces two misdemeanor counts of drunken driving. If convicted on all charges, he could face up to 11 years in prison.
His rejection of the deal came as jury selection began in the case.
Prosecutors allege that Eriksson illegally imported two rare Ferrari Enzo sports cars and a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren to the United States from Great Britain. One of the Enzos was destroyed Feb. 21 when Eriksson hit a utility pole in Malibu at 162 mph. Eriksson initially identified the driver as a German man named Dietrich, who authorities couldn't find. He also claimed he was a deputy commissioner with the "anti-terrorism division" of a small transit agency in the suburban San Gabriel Valley, authorities said.
Eriksson is a former executive with Gizmondo Europe Ltd., a computer game company that went bankrupt last year. He spent five years in a Swedish prison in the 1990s for assault, extortion and other crimes.
By ANDREW GLAZER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A Swedish businessman who authorities say crashed a stolen Ferrari sports car worth $1.5 million on Pacific Coast Highway turned down a plea deal today that would have had him spend two years and four months in prison.
"I cannot agree that I stole the car because I didn't," said Bo Stefan Eriksson, 44, speaking through a Swedish interpreter in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Details of the offered plea deal were not immediately released.
Eriksson is charged with three counts of embezzlement, three counts of grand theft and illegal gun possession, all felonies. He also faces two misdemeanor counts of drunken driving. If convicted on all charges, he could face up to 11 years in prison.
His rejection of the deal came as jury selection began in the case.
Prosecutors allege that Eriksson illegally imported two rare Ferrari Enzo sports cars and a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren to the United States from Great Britain. One of the Enzos was destroyed Feb. 21 when Eriksson hit a utility pole in Malibu at 162 mph. Eriksson initially identified the driver as a German man named Dietrich, who authorities couldn't find. He also claimed he was a deputy commissioner with the "anti-terrorism division" of a small transit agency in the suburban San Gabriel Valley, authorities said.
Eriksson is a former executive with Gizmondo Europe Ltd., a computer game company that went bankrupt last year. He spent five years in a Swedish prison in the 1990s for assault, extortion and other crimes.
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I find it extremely funny that he spoke via a Swedish interpreter. You couldn't throw a rock in Sweden and hit someone who doesn't speak English. The Scandinavians tend to speak English very well as a matter of fact.
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.......millionaire ( possibly billionaire ) Martha Stewart's money didn't keep her out of prison....and I myself thought that she was convicted somewhat unfairly and had grounds for an appeal. And Enron chief Ken Lay, despite his money, was convicted and would have gone to prison had he not died suddenly.
But back to this Eriksson case. In the list of charges that Glazer's article listed, it seems that two more COULD be added if the prosecutor wanted to. Eriksson supposedly told the police that the driver was a German who the police couldn't find, then told them that he was a deputy commissioner with an anti-terrorist group. RIGHT THERE are possibly two MORE criminal charges of lying and filing false police reports.
( On a slightly different note....hope you, your property, and your music buisness escaped damage in those violent storms and flooding in SE TX )
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How much money does he have? He steals cars! I never knew stealing cars was a rich mans hobby.
I think they were his cars, and he lied about owning it, to avoid the ticket, so he got hit with the stolen car rap. I coud be wrong,... I think I would have ran off and hid, before sittin' on the hwy for a cop to roll up and question me....
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He stole all the money from investors...In the mean time he somehow convinced them to give him a car allowance....
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html
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why not take the 2 years, not like he is going to serve a day in jail anyway, he'll either move to another country or spend millions and win the case. He can outspend O.J. so I'm sure he gets off.
If they had to offer a plea I don't think their case is very strong.
If they had to offer a plea I don't think their case is very strong.
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That is not considered filing a false police report? In most states, a false police report is considered a crime; either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the severity of it and its consequences.
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Not over yet!
There really WAS a Dietrich!!
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/californi...ody-288457.php
WOW, when will this be out in movie form?
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/californi...ody-288457.php
WOW, when will this be out in movie form?
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having an interpreter gives you more time to think as you can hear things twice