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Sep 6, 2008 10:19 am US/Central

Exonerated Man Gets Truck-Driving Scholarship

ST. PAUL (AP) ― The good news keeps coming for a man exonerated from kidnapping charges.
  
Ali Abdilahi received a scholarship from the company where he had been training to become an over-the-road truck driver.
  
The president of American Truck Training North in Newport says Abdilahi accepted the $6,495 scholarship for the four-week course and passed his driving test on Thursday.
  
Abdilahi was charged in April with attempting to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in St. Paul. He denied the charges, which were eventually dropped after inconsistencies appeared in the girl's story.
  
The father of two lost $7,500 in bail money and his car, which police sold at auction because he could not afford the $1,000 to get it out of storage.
  
American Truck Training President Gary Pressley says the company thought "it was terrible what had happened," and is confident they can place him with a job.


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