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Todd Beckman was known for his line of tanning salons and strip mall massage parlors, but it was his side business, importing crates of marijuana, that ultimately got him into trouble, authorities say.
The St. Louis entrepreneur, who is facing kidnapping and gun charges, had the weed shipped from California to his office in Fenton, a young associate revealed in court today.
The facts of the operation and its connection to the brutal 2016 kidnapping of a Maplewood man were detailed for the first time today during a hearing to accept the guilty plea of one of Beckman's three main co-defendants, 27-year-old Caleb Laubinger.
U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig spent a large portion of the hearing tracing the quartet's misdeeds as laid out in a fifteen-page plea agreement filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Davis.
She periodically paused to ask Laubinger if the allegations were true.…
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Todd Beckman was known for his line of tanning salons and strip mall massage parlors, but it was his side business, importing crates of marijuana, that ultimately got him into trouble, authorities say.
The St. Louis entrepreneur, who is facing kidnapping and gun charges, had the weed shipped from California to his office in Fenton, a young associate revealed in court today.
The facts of the operation and its connection to the brutal 2016 kidnapping of a Maplewood man were detailed for the first time today during a hearing to accept the guilty plea of one of Beckman's three main co-defendants, 27-year-old Caleb Laubinger.
U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig spent a large portion of the hearing tracing the quartet's misdeeds as laid out in a fifteen-page plea agreement filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Davis.
She periodically paused to ask Laubinger if the allegations were true.…
