His association with a flamboyant swindler and, by extension, a Roseville-based $100 million mortgage and investment fraud, set federal agents on Scott Edward Cavell’s trail.
The Sacramento native fled to Ireland in 2009, where life became a nightmare when he was thrown into an ancient prison on a marijuana bust. After eight months of incarceration, he volunteered to return to the United States and surrender to federal authorities.
Cavell was sentenced Tuesday in Sacramento federal court to five years in prison, a relatively light sentence given his flight and compared to what he could have faced. His co-defendant, Christopher Jared Warren, got 14 years and seven months.