Costa Mesa's Joel Boyd and Chad Watts robbed an Orange County Cash Plus business and got away with more than $26,600 until FBI agents apprehended them and two, 2005 juries rendered guilty verdicts.
Watts, now 31, won a 121-month trip to a federal prison in southeastern Arizona, where he remains today.
But Boyd refuses to go away quietly.
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Upshot: Boyd, 36, will continue to serve his whopping 320-month punishment at a federal prison in Allenwood, PA. His projected release date is in 2032.
Both indigent robbers have been ordered to pay restitution to Cash Plus.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.