Schrenker’s Attorney Wants Mental Evalution For Pilot
Associated Press
Published: January 21, 2009
Updated: January 21, 2009
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A public defender says Indiana investment adviser Marcus Schrenker, 38, is not mentally competent to be tried on charges he deliberately crashed his plane in the Florida Panhandle in a botched plot to fake his own death.
Attorney Thomas Keith asked a judge today to order a mental evaluation for his client Marcus Schrenker.
Keith says he spoke with Schrenker and that he is too mentally unstable to face the federal charges against him.
Authorities say Schrenker hatched the plot to escape financial ruin.
They say he parachuted from the plane that he left on autopilot.
It crashed later on Jan. 11 and Schrenker sped away on a motorcycle he had stashed in central Alabama.
Federal agents found him three days later.
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