Man Posing as Deputy at Rose Parade Gets 2 Years
A halfway house escapee who was captured in a deputy’s uniform with a loaded gun on the Rose Parade route in Pasadena was sentenced Thursday to two years on the escape charge.
Leymoine Jacques Bolton, 26, was given a two-year extension on the prison time that remained when he walked away from a halfway house last year. Bolton was arrested New Year’s Eve on the parade route.
A man arrived for work at a sheriff’s checkpoint dressed in a uniform with a holstered, loaded handgun. The deputy manning the checkpoint became suspicious and discovered that he was a state prison system escapee.
The sentence on his guilty plea to four felony charges of being an ex-convict with a gun, possessing a billy club, grand theft auto and felony joy riding are pending in Pasadena Superior Court.
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