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Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water
Loaded on April 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2001, page 11
An Ohio prisoner will spend an additional three years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to theft charges stemming from an elaborate credit card and telephone scam he ran from behind bars. Lonny Lee Bristow, 27, was already serving a 9year 11month sentence at the Southern Ohio Correctional …
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