John Bennett, 25, given two-month sentence for air mattress crossing
Bennett said he was trying to protect fiancee from violent ex-boyfriend
‘I sense that there’s this element of a Romeo-Juliet type of thing,’ said a lawyer representing Canada’s public prosecutors.
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
His goal was simple, he told authorities. He was hoping to protect his pregnant fiancee from a violent ex-boyfriend.
There was just one, rather formidable, obstacle in his way: the Canada-US border.
The solution devised by the 25-year-old American – floating down a river that separates the two countries on an inflatable mattress to illegally enter …
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