The lawyer for a man accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to set fires to Walmart stores in Mobile and Mississippi spent Friday morning grilling the woman who has admitted starting the blazes.
) - The lawyer for a man accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to set fires to Walmart stores spent Friday morning grilling the woman who has admitted starting the blazes.
“That’s a good defense for the co-defendants to point the finger and say they were just hanging out with the wrong crew, that they’re a babe in the woods,” attorney Tom Walsh said after the hearing. “But, you know, I’m just focused on my client.” Federal prosecutors are recommending a prison term for Sikes at the high end of advisory guidelines, which is nine years. Prosecutors also are seeking $6.3 million in restitution for Walmart – an amount that Walsh said likely never will be paid.
Scheele, 29 described getting paid by Sikes for sex and attending sex parties with him and his wife. She testified that he was abusive and controlling. She said that she set the fires at his behest and felt she could not resist. Walsh also challenged the notion that Scheele was helpless to resist his client. He asked why she never sought help from her “stripper friends” and she worked as an exotic dancer in Pensacola or why did didn’t seek out a security guard at one of the Walmarts she set on fire.
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