Publication Date:
Sun, 2011-03-06 00:31
The Seattle Times
reports that 74-year-old James Fogle was sentenced Friday in King Superior
Court for last May's Redmond robbery. The ailing man was brought to court in a
wheelchair, breathing with the aid of an oxygen tank. Fogle was armed with a BB
gun, while his co-defendant, Shannon Benn, had a handgun. Benn pleaded guilty
in September.
Fogle has spent much of his adult life in prison, which is where
he wrote "Drugstore Cowboy." Filmmaker Gus Van Sant turned the novel
into the acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon. The work was loosely based
on Fogle's life robbing pharmacies to feed his addictions.
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