An American cage fighter who faked his own death to escape a debt to
his drug dealer has been jailed for a maximum of 40 years - after
pleading guilty to an armed robbery when he was supposed to be dead.
Charles Rowan, 26, admitted robbing a gun store in Michigan while family and friends believed he had died in a car crash.
The New York Times reports that they had believed his girlfriend, Rosa Martinez, when she told them he had been killed, and even organised charity fights in his memory.
But his fake death was an elaborate hoax as Rowan tried to free himself of an $80,000 drug debt.
During the raid on the gun store - which Rowan carried out with Martinez and a friend - Rowan hit the shop's 75-year-old owner with a hammer, before making off with eight handguns.
They were arrested two days later, and he has been told he must serve between 17-and-a-half and 40 years in prison.
Martinez was also jailed, for between 70 months and 30 years.
Charles Rowan, 26, admitted robbing a gun store in Michigan while family and friends believed he had died in a car crash.
The New York Times reports that they had believed his girlfriend, Rosa Martinez, when she told them he had been killed, and even organised charity fights in his memory.
But his fake death was an elaborate hoax as Rowan tried to free himself of an $80,000 drug debt.
During the raid on the gun store - which Rowan carried out with Martinez and a friend - Rowan hit the shop's 75-year-old owner with a hammer, before making off with eight handguns.
They were arrested two days later, and he has been told he must serve between 17-and-a-half and 40 years in prison.
Martinez was also jailed, for between 70 months and 30 years.
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