Article: Student pilot sentenced for airplane theft.

A Canadian student pilot will spend two years in prison for stealing an airplane and flying it into the United States without clearance, a judge says.

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 ...

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