[Sherlock]

The story last summer was in the 26 hour interrogation of Ricci he gave police the names of Remington and Young, presumably in answer to questions about other acquaintances he had worked with in the Federal Heights area. Police first talked to Young and then later to Remington. Remington returned the favor of Ricci sending police to him by pointing to Ricci as the gunman in his bank robbery.

After Remington's trial it was written that Remington came to authorities on his own just to be a good citizen and donated information on Ricci to help the authorities out, thus he was let off with about 10% of the jailtime he merited. Don't ask me what the truth is but I would certainly like to know the truth on why the police rewarded Remington the way they did.

[lakey]

Question not put to me but I'll give you a reason Remington got a short sentence. He pulled the fire off of SLCPD's butt - gave them something on Ricci - whether it was true or not.

[lakey]

While you're at it, tell us who those other Jeeps belonged to. Inquiring minds want to know.

See you tomorrow.

[Lissa2002]

Thanks for the reply Sherlock! Sorry, I think I misinterpreted the wording of your original post. I went back and re-read it, and now see what you meant when you said police wouldn't know about Remington and the robbery if Ricci had answered their questions.

I had not read any news accounts of how police had actually found out about Ricci's involvement in the robbery. Apparently I must have missed one!

[Devil_Anse]

Remington has been tried for the bank robbery? What was the sentence he got, I wonder? Do you happen to have a cite I can read?

This may have been mentioned and cited on one of the Smart threads; forgive me if I'm just not remembering it.

If he did get an especially lenient sentence, I'd be willing to bet that it was exactly for that reason: that he'd given information to police about the other bank robbers, and perhaps had been willing and able to testify about them at their trials. (Obviously, it later turned out he didn't have to testify at Ricci's bank robbery trial, because Ricci died.)

If Remington has really been in the slammer on the bank robbery case since Nov. of 2001--and I know you have your doubts about that--then he's already built up a year or so of credit against whatever sentence he got, or will get, for the bank robbery.