"Midnight Express" Redux
By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Sun Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:20 PM EST
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Posted on Sun Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:20 PM EST
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Update: 12/27/04: Erik Aude arrives home from Pakistan. 12/21: Erik Aude is released from jail.
Original Post:
A 21 year old California actor, Erik Anthony Aude, who had a bit part in "Hey Dude, Where's My Car," has been sentenced to seven years in a Pakistani prison for smuggling opium. He could have been sentenced to death.
Aude's mother said he was "duped by a man he met at a Burbank gym into thinking he was importing leather goods." She called the sentence as good as a death sentence.
Pakistan is not a member of the Prisoner Transfer Treaty Program so Aude can't even do his time in a U.S. jail. Ouch.
[link via The Guardroom]
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