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| Jeremy Meeks |
"His sudden popularity sparked interest in commercially exploiting his image"
According to local KXTV chain Meeks, who faced a total of eleven charges relating to the illegal possession of weapons, was finally reduced to one, although the federal level rather than state.
What do you think about the attention generated by this prisoner?
If convicted, Meeks could face a sentence of up to ten years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine, said the lawyer for the prosecution, Lauren Horwood.
The prisoners soon leave prison San Joaquin Valley to go to a federal detention center in Sacramento.
In the federal legal system photographs and videos of prisoners are not allowed, so it will be a while without new pictures of the famous prisoner.
Meeks now appeared handcuffed and the usual orange prison uniform, was arrested on June 18 in an operation in which three other people were arrested for possession of weapons.
He signed a $ 30,000
The prisoner and was sentenced in 2002 to two years in prison for attacking and robbing a teenager in California and later admitted belonging to a street gang known as North side Gangster Crip.
In 2007 he moved to Washington State and was again arrested for attempted robbery and resisting arrest, why he came back into prison.
His sudden popularity sparked interest in commercially exploiting his image late last month and got a rep, Gina Rodriguez, GR Media Firm, and signed a $ 30,000 Angelina agency models, Blaze Modelz.
Rodriguez told the ABC that his client, 30, could earn up to $ 100,000 a month as a model and advertising contracts.
Meeks's popularity is due to the portrait that took police officers at the station, posted on the Facebook page of the department. The image caught the attention of netizens for its beauty and turned everyone.
