Friday, September 24, 2010
Chapel Hill / News / Morrisville
Bedri Kulla gets a year in prison for violating civil rights of undocumented immigrant
Bedri Kulla, the man who posed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to try to blackmail an undocumented immigrant into having a sexual relationship with him, was sentenced to one year in prison today.
Indy contributor Rebekah Cowell just called from the Federal Courthouse in Greensboro, where she was covering the hearing.
After Kulla, who lives in Morrisville, serves his prison term, he will be on probation for another year.
Check back for a followup blog post, plus an article in next week's Indy.
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