Track Star Marion Jones Goes to Prison

The ex-track star Marion Jones has began her six month prison sentence on Friday. She was convicted of lying to investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs and her part in a check-fraud scam. She turned herself in before noon on Friday at the Federal Medical Center Carswell, which is on the Naval Air Station. She had until Tuesday to turn herself in. The prison that she is in specializes in medical and mental health services, but it also has inmates who don’t need any care.

Couple Arrested in Medical Diagnosing Scam

A man, named Brent Eric Finley, was sentenced to more than four years in prison for scamming friends and family out of more than $800,000 by telling them that his wife was a government agent that could diagnose their medical problems through satellite imaging. He was sentenced in federal court to serve 51 months in prison and then three years of supervised release. His wife, Stacey Finley, was sentenced to 63 months in prison. The couple is ordered to pay $873,786.94 in restitution. The couple also pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

The couple told people that Stacey Finley was a CIA agent that had contacts that she could use to schedule a medical scan of the people’s bodies using satellite imaging that could detect any medical problems. They said that if any medical problems were found, secret agents would give them medicine while they were asleep if they paid them.