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2-year sentence for flying stolen plane
Flight caused evacuation of Wisconsin capitol
Updated: Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 11:01 AM CST
Published : Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 11:01 AM CST
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A 31-year-old Canadian man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for stealing a plane in Canada and flying over three states before landing along a dark southern Missouri highway.
Adam Dylan Leon had admitted in August to all federal charges he'd faced: interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, importation of a stolen aircraft and illegal entry.
A federal judge in St. Louis said Leon's actions posed risks to himself and others, cost the government $230,000 to keep fighter jets in the air for seven hours tracking him, and caused the Wisconsin capitol to evacuate.
Leon admitted he stole a four-seat Cessna 172 from his Thunder Bay, Ontario, flight school last April and crossed the U.S. border. Leon landed the plane more than seven hours later on a road off of Highway 60 near Ellsinore, Mo.
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