Balloon boy charges ‘may come next week’
Larimer County sheriff’s spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said investigators don’t anticipate finishing their reports and presenting them to the district attorney’s office until next week. It will then be up to prosecutors to decide whether to file charges against Richard Heene or his wife, Mayumi.
Heene is accused of masterminding a hoax in which emergency services chased an out-of-control balloon in which his son was feared to be trapped. Heene’s lawyer David Lane said earlier yesterday he was willing to turn himself in over the alleged plot, which took in the world media on Thursday with cameras tracking the flying saucer-shaped vessel as it zipped across the Colorado skies.
