The Nation - News from May 5, 1989
One of two men who said they took hostages in the Robesonian newspaper office in Lumberton, N.C., to draw attention to official corruption pleaded guilty to 14 counts of second-degree kidnaping. Timothy Jacobs, 20, agreed to a plea bargain that called for him to serve six years in prison followed by a six-year suspended sentence with supervised probation. Jacobs and fellow Tuscarora Indian Eddie Hatcher, 31, held up to 20 people hostage at the newspaper for 10 hours Feb. 1, 1988.
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