CONVICTED: Deidra Lane, Widow of Fred Lane
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Associated Press reports the widow of NFL running back Fred Lane, who is awaiting trial on charges she murdered her husband, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to commit bank larceny. The agreement, in which Deidra Lane pleaded guilty to a single felony count, was not connected to charges that accuse her of gunning down Fred Lane at their home in Charlotte on July 6, 2000. She has claimed she shot him in self-defense.
Lane wasn't sentenced immediately, but faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. In exchange for her guilty plea, the government dismissed a bank larceny charge that also carried a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
According to the plea, Lane admitted that between June 15, 1998, and July 1, 1998, she conspired with Natosha Watson, a teller at a Wachovia Bank branch in Charlotte. They stole more than $41,000 from the bank on or about July 1, 1998, according to the agreement.
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