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Monday, January 11, 2010
Jail Cell Looms For ‘Balloon Boy’ Dad
Prosecutors: Heenes also owe up to $48,000 in restitution over hoax
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The father who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the balloon boy hoax is to turn himself in to begin serving a 90-day jail sentence Monday following a media blitz in which he said he was innocent.
Richard Heene told The Associated Press that his Japanese wife misunderstood the meaning of the word "hoax" when she purportedly confessed to authorities.
"She cries, now and then, stating that I'm going to jail for 90 days because of what she said," Heene said in an interview Friday, about Mayumi Heene's statements to police.
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