Larry Wilcox is sentenced to three years probation and community service hours.
Larry Wilcox, the former star of the television show “CHiPS”, was sentenced to three years probation on Friday for “conspiring to defraud investors by manipulating penny stocks.”
As reported in the Orlando Sentinel, Larry Wilcox offered “illegal kickbacks” to an undercover FBI agent. Judge James I. Cohn could have sentenced Wilcox to five years in prison, but was lenient and sentenced him only to three months probabtion. The Sentinel reports that the judge took mercy on Wilcox partly due to the actor, track record of many community service hours.
Along with his three years of probabtion, Wilcox will have to pay a $100 fine and serve 500 hours of community service. “I think we got an individual who is truly remorseful,” Cohn said in theLos Angeles Times. “He should not be punished because of his celebrity status.”
Prosecuters in the case were pushing for a prison time of one year, which is still less than the reccommended time. Stating that Wilcox, a father of five, had already “suffered immensely”, his attorney William Richey argued for a probabtion sentence with community service hours. “The arrest and guilty plea of Larry Wilcox has been reported around the world,” Richey said in the Sentinel.
Wilcox is best known for his role as Jonathan “Jon” Baker, a Highway Patrol motorcyle officer on the show “CHiPS” that aired in the late 1970’s and early 80’s.
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