PORTLAND, Ore. — A former Bend developer who was to start a 10-year prison sentence this summer in connection with a Central Oregon mortgage fraud scheme has been arrested after his son allegedly confessed he shot his father to delay his prison term.
The Oregonian reports authorities arrested Shannon Egeland on Thursday in Idaho after the son confessed Egeland asked him to shoot him in the legs in July, a day before he was to report to prison.
Egeland, 40, told authorities he was shot by a motorist he’d pulled over to assist.
Egeland was vice president of the Desert Sun Development company, which orchestrated tens of millions of dollars in mortgage fraud between 2004 and 2008.
Egeland pleaded guilty to fraud charges; he was one of 12 indicted in the scandal.
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