My daughter was not arrested at all that day. She came in on her own, eleven days later, with a public defender, and sat in a room and talked for five hours.
Nothing was federal. It was all state. Ray explained it to me twice and I still only half understand it, but the short version is that the insurance carrier was in-state, the money was in-state, and there was nothing that crossed a line that brings the other people in.
The Sentences Were Not Fifteen Years and I Am Not Going to Pretend I’m at Peace With That
Mark Stevens pled. Insurance fraud, tampering with evidence, and a charge having to do with the stolen vehicle report.
He got four years, with the possibility of release after two and a half. He served two years and seven months at a correctional facility about ninety minutes from here, and he was released in March of this year, and he lives in Indiana now, and he is not permitted contact with Emma until she is eighteen and decides for herself.
