Balloon Boy Parents Get Jail Time, Tough Probation

By P. SOLOMON BANDA, Associated Press Writer, San Francisco Chronicle
Wed, 12/23/2009 - 10:53am

The parents who carried out the balloon boy hoax were sentenced to jail Wednesday and given strict probation conditions that forbid them from earning any money from the spectacle for four years. Richard Heene was sentenced to 90 days in jail, including 60...

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