A 38-year-old Romanian man, Stefan Alexandru Barabas, has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion in connection to a harrowing 2007 home invasion in Connecticut. The incident involved Barabas and two accomplices entering a residence in South Kent, Connecticut, where they injected a wealthy couple with a substance they claimed was a deadly virus.
The intruders, wearing masks and armed with knives and fake firearms, demanded $8.5 million from the victims, millionaire philanthropist Anne Hendricks Bass and abstract artist Julian Lethbridge. When the victims were unable to meet the demands, they were drugged with a sleeping aid, and the intruders fled the scene in the homeowner's Jeep Cherokee.
