North Carolina inmate convicted in kidnapping of prosecutor's father

[Sports News]

Kelvin Melton, 51, was found guilty on four kidnapping charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a statement. Prosecutors said Melton arranged the kidnapping through a mobile phone from his cell at the Polk Correctional Institution in the town of Butner. Melton was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole on a charge related to being a violent habitual felon, his attorney Laura Beaver said.

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