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Todd Beckman, who built a small empire on fake tans and chain store massages, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
The 53-year-old admitted in federal court that he and three others held a 25-year-old Maplewood man hostage for three violent days in November 2016— releasing him only after the man's parents paid a $27,000 ransom.
"Is that what you did in this case?" U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig.
"Yes," Beckman said.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors have agreed to recommend a sentence of no more than twenty years in prison.
During the hearing, the founder of a suite of vanity and fitness brands admitted he had been importing marijuana from California in blocks of 50 to 80 pounds, the illicit cargo concealed in wooden crates he had shipped to his office in Fenton.…
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Todd Beckman, who built a small empire on fake tans and chain store massages, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit kidnapping.The 53-year-old admitted in federal court that he and three others held a 25-year-old Maplewood man hostage for three violent days in November 2016— releasing him only after the man's parents paid a $27,000 ransom.
"Is that what you did in this case?" U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig.
"Yes," Beckman said.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors have agreed to recommend a sentence of no more than twenty years in prison.
During the hearing, the founder of a suite of vanity and fitness brands admitted he had been importing marijuana from California in blocks of 50 to 80 pounds, the illicit cargo concealed in wooden crates he had shipped to his office in Fenton.…
