Former New Jersey ticket broker retracts guilty plea.

Publication: Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, New Jersey) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Lonnie Mack

Nov. 16--MIDDLESEX COUNTY, N.J. -- A former ticket broker who jumped bail in January and fled the country after admitting that he cheated customers and the state Treasury out of $770,000 avoided sentencing yesterday when he told a Superior Court judge that he wants to retract his guilty plea.

John Forrest, 42, who owned Tri-State ticket exchange on Route 9 in Old Bridge and was captured in September by bounty hunters, was scheduled to be sentenced yesterday to five years in prison by Judge Phillip...

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