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Article: Student pilot sentenced for airplane theft.
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- UPI Energy Resources
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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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 ...