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Retired U.S. Marine Captain Michael Brown of McKavett, Texas, was convicted of felony attempt to commit kidnapping and misdemeanor petit larceny after being indicted in January 2006 on more serious charges of kidnapping and grand larceny. Brown entered Kennedy pleas to charges that, while portraying himself as a police officer, he abducted 19 year old Lui Jin, a Cabell-Midland High School student, from the Milton Flea Market on October 2, 2005. The girl escaped from his vehicle when he stopped at a manufactured homes business in Quincy, West Virginia. Brown was sentenced to three years probation, two to be served on home confinement, and he agreed to pay restitution and court costs after being accused of stealing collector coins from Jin's father. Home confinement does not exist in Brown's hometown.