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Show Piwo, Utah Saturday. April 15. 2000. THE DAILY HERALD, Jleged rapist avoids prison The reduced felony carries a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and SCIltCnCC the The Daily Herald - PROVO a first-degr- ee fine. Orem the next day. Orem to According Department of Public Safety, the victim told investigators she had gone to the party with an acquaintance and allowed a sports drink called ReGenerize to be put into her fruit juice. Orem Police Lt. Doug Edwards said certain individuals at the party told her that by drinking some ReGenerize' containing GHB, she could experience the feeling she might get from drinking alcohol without violating her felony aggravated assault, Telona finally church's alcohol proscription. She first became sick after pleaded no contest to a reduced felony voluntarily allowing 3 ounces that will allow the charge to of ReGenerize into her fruit be reduced to a Class A misdrink, but later consumed demeanor if he follows the. more, police reports said. Edwards said the woman terms of his three-yea- r probatold investigators she finally tion. The reduced felony carries passed out and awoke as a maximum penalty of up to Telona was carrying her into five years in prison and a a bedroom. She said while she was $5,000 fine, while the incapacitated, she was aware felony carries a penal-,tof five vears to life and a of her assailant removing her clothes and performing sexu$10,000 fine. Telona was ordered to pay al acts on her. Police reports said the vic$400 restitution as part the ' tim reported the rape to them terms of his probation. . Dressed in a sharp suit, the next day, after she talked Telona told 4th District Court with and was consoled by the Judge Donald Eyre in a Provo friend who took her to the courtroom that he had no pre- party. .'. vious criminal record and has Pat Christian at led a good life. or James Haskins, Telona's pchristiheraldextra.com ' Salt Lake City defense attor- call ney, told the judge his client was an accomplished ballroom dancer who last year won a world championship in Europe. He said Telona and his. family are one of the most exceptional families he knows "ABSOLUTELY THE BEST CASH HICES, and asked the judge to allow VIEWUtOTlEmDElSOLD!' the defendant to skip serving With Every Windshield You jail time. Mobile Service. But Eyre said that while FREE State Inspection. Telona disputes the allegaFREE Rock Chip Repair. tions of the victim, the origiInsurance Approved. nal felony charge 100 Guaranteed. woman who said she was incapacitated after voluntarily sipping a drink containing date rape GHB, the drug, recently outlawed by Utah and federal legislation. After his sentencing Telona told reporters, "I did not rape this girl." He said he was not aware of what the victim may or - may not have consumed and said there had been no intercourse, only mutually consented sexual activity. Previously charged with first-degre- charged Jan. and porphyry needed a bone marrow transto cost plant estimated $150,000. The disease made her allergic to ultraviolet light and -- was life threatening, ' records say. The men allegedly learned about her via the Internet and conducted their alleged scam around July of last year after Sehee had already received her transplant. She is doing well today. The two men have been face felonies, but ing as part of a arrangement. Burke pleaded guilty Friday to the third-degre- e felony of attempted communications fraud. e A felony carries a penalty of five years to life, while a third-degrefelony carries a sentence of up to five years. Meservy was also offered the same deal by prosecutors. The Daily Herald PROVO penalty of five years to life and a $10,000 thropoietic By PAT CHRISTIAN Steven Burke, Orem man accused of using the tragic story of a little girl who needed a bone marrow transplant in order to steal money, pleaded guilty Friday in a Provo courtroom and was scheduled for sentencing at 8 a.m. May 19. Burke and David Meservy, 24, of Orem were charged Jan. e 1 with felony communication fraud for placing nearly 200 donation jars at Widening project results in lane closure Steven Burke and David Meservy, 24, of Orem were attempted fraud the" felony carries a Felipe Telona Jr., 23, was given a suspended sentence that will keep him out of prison but give him some jail time. He had been facing sentencing for allegedly assaulting in a $5,000 fine, while By PAT CHRISTIAN ' Orem man sentenced first-degr- 1 with felony ee The Daily Herald communication fraud for placing nearly 200 donation jars at retail counters throughout Utah County. plea-bargai- retail counters throughout Utah County. Police and court records reveal hundreds of Good Samaritans donated as much as $15,000, to help defray the transplant needed by Alison but is so far scheduled to undergo a preliminary hearing scheduled for April 21 where police and prosecutors are expected to put on enough evidence to establish sufficient probability that a crime n first-degre- Sehee of Ohio. Sehee is an Ohio girl who suffered from congenital ery site at www.dot.state.ut.us. Click on the "Construction Projects" icon and choose the . was committed. e Pat Christian mail Reconstruction and Widening" link. 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