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Linkin Park Stalker Sentenced | ||||||||||||
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| Wendy Aron, 02.21.2008, 11:40 AM | ||||||||||||
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| (EZ-Tracks) - A woman who had stalked Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday for tracking and harassing the rocker using her work computer at Sandia National Laboratories, a tech firm located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The woman, Devon Townsend, has two months to surrender to a minimum-security prison in Phoenix, where she is expected to receive mental health treatment. She had pleaded guilty to stalking and other counts, according to an Associated Press report. Townsend, who worked in Sandia's technology and manufacturing division, used lab computers to illegally obtain personal information about Bennington and his wife, Talinda, in 2006. According to court records of the plea deal obtained by the AP, Townsend admitted to accessing family photos, monitoring voice messages and traveling to Arizona to meet Bennington, after finding information about his travel plans. She also obtained correspondence between Warner Brothers Records and Linkin Park's business attorney, including a copy of a check made to Bennington from the record company and a copy of the band's record contract. In addition, Townsend admitted to hacking into Bennington’s wife’s email account and sending her threatening messages. | ||||||||||||
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