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Archive Home > 2008 > March > 15 > Bend man tied to fatal hit-and-run gets 5 years

Bend man tied to fatal hit-and-run gets 5 years

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
March 15, 2008

A 20-year-old Bend man was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for helping burn a Mercedes Benz involved in a grisly fatal accident, dealing drugs and beating a man he thought was a police informant.

At his sentencing hearing, Robert Jennings Battles asked for leniency, saying his addiction....

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