In brief: Embezzler given 10-year sentence

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. – An Indiana money manager who stole from investors and tried to fake his death by parachuting out of a plane and crashing it was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday despite his pleas for a lighter sentence that he said would give him more time to make things right.

Marcus Schrenker, 39, said he wanted to repay investors and rebuild his relationship with the three children he’s seen only once in the last two years. But Judge Steven Nation said he had a hard time believing Schrenker wouldn’t spiral into the same pattern of behavior again.

Nation ordered Schrenker to serve the 10-year sentence consecutively with a four-year prison term he received for ditching his plane in January 2009 and crashing it in Florida.

Schrenker pleaded guilty last month to securities fraud charges and agreed to serve up to 10 years in prison and pay more than $600,000 in restitution.

Schrenker was an amateur daredevil pilot who used money he stole from investors to buy planes, luxury cars and a home in an upscale suburban Indianapolis neighborhood nicknamed “Cocktail Cove,” where affluent boaters often socialized, prosecutors say.

They say Schrenker bilked nine clients, including a friend of 10 years and his own aunt, out of a total of about $1.5 million they thought they were investing in a foreign currency fund that didn’t really exist.

Woman mistakes glue, eye drops

PHOENIX – An Arizona woman accidentally glued an eye shut when she mistook super glue for her eye drops.

KSAZ-TV says Irmgard Holm, of Glendale, had cataract surgery a year ago. She was reaching for what she thought was one of her half-dozen eye drop medications. The burning sensation told her immediately something was seriously wrong.

Holm said the eye drops and the super glue bottles are nearly identical.

After putting super glue in her eye, Holm said she tried washing it out. But the quick-drying substance did what it was supposed to and sealed her eye shut.

Holm got to the hospital and staff cut off the hardened glue covering her eye. Once the eye was opened, doctors washed it out to prevent major damage.