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Sentencing set for boyfriend who hid runaway in home
News · July 18, 2012
A Minnesota man found with a runaway West Branch girl in December faces sentencing next week.
Angel Olvera, 22, of Minnesota City, Minn., pleaded guilty May 16 to a gross misdemeanor charge of contributing to the need for protection or services - runaway, according to court records.
In the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a felony charge of depriving another of parental rights - runaway.
Olvera had been headed toward a jury trial when the plea agreement was reached.
Sentencing is set for 2 p.m. July 19 at the Winona County Courthouse. A gross misdemeanor in Minnesota is punishable of up to one year in jail and up to $3,000 in fines.
His attorney is public defender Christine Ann Ledebuhr. The prosecutor is Justin Wesley.
Olvera was arrested in March after Brittany Safley-Prigge, then 16, disappeared from West Branch Dec. 12-16 after an argument with her mother. It was thought Safley-Prigge was still in the area, but law enforcement determined that Olvera, her boyfriend at the time, had picked her up at the Casey’s in West Branch and took her to his parents’ home in Minnesota, hiding her in his room for five days. Police had searched the house twice, but Safley-Prigge was apparently hiding in a locked room.
Olvera was arrested and had an initial appearance in court on March 8 and was released the same day on several conditions: That he not have any contact with Safley-Prigge, now 17, or her family and that he stay a “reasonable distance” from their home; that he not leave Minnesota without permission; that he not break any laws and that he post $10,000 bail ($1,000 bond). |
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