Pilot Who Flew Through Eiffel Tower Gets 15-Year Prison Term STUART, Fla. (AP) _ Robert Moriarty, who once flew a single-engine plane through the opening at the base of the Eiffel Tower, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on a drug-conspiracy charge.
Chief Circuit Judge Dwight Geiger also ordered a $250,000 fine and 15 years probation.
″I’m very upset ... We’re going to take this case to appeal,″ Moriarty said after the sentencing Thursday.
He criticized Geiger’s decision not to dismiss the verdict of the jury that found him guilty in February of conspiring to traffic in cocaine but innocent of a cocaine-trafficking charge.
″I’m going up to the ‘Big House’ with the biggest sentence anybody has gotten in this case,″ said the 41-year-old pilot from Coconut Grove, who has been held in the Martin County Jail since his arrest in October 1986.
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