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Mar 19, 2008 12:14 pm US/Eastern
Band Manager In R.I. Fire Released From Prison
CRANSTON, R.I. (WBZ) ―
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Former Great White Tour Manager, Dan Biechele is released from prison.
WBZ
The band manager whose pyrotechnics display sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people in 2003 has been freed from prison after serving less than half of his four-year sentence.
Daniel Biechele, 31, walked from the front door of the state's minimum security prison into his lawyer's car about noon Wednesday and was driven away. He did not respond to questions as he got into the car.
Biechele, the former tour manager for the 1980s hair band Great White, pleaded guilty in 2006 to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter for his part in the fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick.
Biechele tearfully apologized at his sentencing hearing, saying he wasn't sure he could ever forgive himself, and didn't expect forgiveness from anyone else.
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