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Former student leader released



SALEM  (AP) — A former high school student body president who led friends in a string of 1990s armed robberies has been released from an Oregon prison.

The state Department of Corrections said 29-year-old Tom Curtis left the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem on Friday.

Neither his father nor his lawyer would discuss Curtis’ plans with The Oregonian.

The newspaper says in the mid-1990s Curtis was student body president of Grant High School in Portland, as well as an Eagle Scout, homecoming king and a track star.

In 1998, after being featured on ‘‘America’s Most Wanted,’’ Curtis surrendered in Las Vegas.

Returning to Portland, he later pleaded guilty to 19 of the 100 counts against him. He has been in prison since April 22, 1999.

Except for two early disciplinary incidents, prison spokeswoman Wendy Hatfield says Curtis has been ‘‘a model inmate.’’

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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com




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