ItboughtGeauga Lake, anamusement and waterparknearCleveland, in 2004 for $145 million only to closeallofits roller coastersandthrillridesthreeyearslater.
Lane declined to allow his attorneys to present evidence on his behalf at the sentencing hearing before Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David L. Fuhry.
Mr. Lane began living off and on with his paternal grandparents in Chardon several years ago, said Carl Henderson, a former Chardon police officer and Geauga County Sheriff, who lived near the family.