The father of the Jamaican flight attendant who was arrested for smuggling $3 million worth of cocaine in two suitcases has settled on a likely excuse.
"Somebody gave her the bag," said the father of Marsha Gay Reynolds, who is being held without bond in New York pending extradition to Los Angeles.
Now that the federal case against Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member Apollo Nida, 35, has ended in a conviction, the focus is shifting to his alleged co-conspirators -- one of whom may or may not be his wife, local attorney and RHOA star Phaedra Parks.
Apollo was sentenced to 8 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring to to commit mail, wire and bank fraud in a complex fraud scheme which spanned over four years and harmed over 50 victims.
Apollo will remain free for another 2 months. But he cannot appeal his conviction due to his plea deal.
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Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Apollo Nida surrendered to US Marshalls yesterday on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity fraud. Nida appeared in front of a US magistrate judge at US District Court in downtown Atlanta.
A bisexual Alabama man and his male domestic partner are each being held on $1 million bond in a vile case of captivity and sexual torture involving his 9-year-old son.
State prosecutors in Huntsville, AL say they are "confident and satisfied" that Carl Philip Herold sexually tortured his son, kept the boy under constant surveillance, and used the child to produce child pornography.