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Overbeck To Plead Guilty To Federal Weapons Charge

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Published: October 24, 2008

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  Scott Overbeck

TAMPA - A man who figured prominently this year in the investigation into the 1997 disappearance of Sabrina Aisenberg has agreed to plead guilty to a federal weapons charge.

Scott Overbeck will plead guilty to being a felon in possession of an explosive device, according to a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court.

The Aisenberg investigation was in the news over the summer amid reports that Overbeck claimed he had purchased a 12-foot boat from Sabrina's mother, Marlene, and speculated that the boat once carried the body of the child who disappeared at the age of 5 months.

A sheriff's office informant, Dennis Byron, reportedly said Overbeck admitted chopping up the baby's body after her mother killed her in the boat.

The federal charge against Overbeck carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.

According to the plea agreement, investigators searched Overbeck's home at 9303 Eden Rock Circle E. on Dec. 18. On a shelf in Overbeck's bedroom, they found an improvised explosive device made from a 1 1/2- to- 2-inch commercial fireworks mortar shell with an 8-inch fuse and five skeet-loaded shotgun shells duct taped to the perimeter. The device contained explosive powders and shotgun shells that would "act as fragmentation," the plea agreement states.

Overbeck was convicted of cocaine possession in March 2007 and not allowed to possess firearms, the plea agreement states.

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