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Hearing delayed for grandfather in abduction case

Mon, Dec 1, 2008 (8:09 a.m.)

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Clemens Fred Tinnemeyer

A federal court hearing has been postponed for up to 90 days for the grandfather of a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy who was abducted in October.

No new date was immediately set in a written order delaying a Monday preliminary hearing for 51-year-old Clemens Fred Tinnemeyer and his girlfriend, 42-year-old Terri Lynn Leavy.

A court document shows U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen granted the continuance Nov. 25 at the request of prosecutors and lawyers for Tinnemeyer and Leavy.

The parties said they are trying to reach a plea deal in the case.

Tinnemeyer and Leavy are in federal custody in North Las Vegas pending a hearing on federal racketeering charges.

Prosecutors allege Cole Puffinburger was abducted Oct. 15 to get Tinnemeyer to surface after he disappeared with millions of dollars in drug money from a U.S.-Mexico smuggling operation.

The boy became the focus of Nevada's longest Amber Alert before he was found unharmed late Oct. 18 on a Las Vegas street.

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