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Last time I’d reported on Stefan Eriksson was January 2008, after he’d gotten out of jail in the US and was waiting to get booted out of the country. Looks like our favorite ex-mobile exec has gotten himself in a little more trouble, and will be spending the next year and a half in a [...]

Perhaps this will be the last mention of Stefan Eriksson: the former Gizmondo exec and Ferrari-crasher is out of jail (via Engadget), and is in a detention center as he awaits expulsion from the US. Apparently he was released from jail in December, but he’s been sitting in a detention center waiting for the Swedish [...]

Thanks to Mike Masnick for the tip: the infamous “Dietrich” from the Stefan Eriksson of Gizmondo Ferrari crash has been located! Eriksson (pictured here) originally claimed that “a German man called Dietrich” was driving the million-dollar Ferrari Enzo when it crashed, and he fled the scene after the wreck. An extensive search never turned up [...]

Just a few days after his trial on embezzlement and grand theft auto charges ended in a mistrial, Stefan Eriksson has accepted a plea bargain — pleading no contest to two counts of embezzlement and one count of illegal possession of a gun. Grand theft auto charges were dropped, but Eriksson was sentenced to three [...]

You go away for a few days and you miss everything… Jurors in former Gizmondo boss Stefan Eriksson’s grand theft and fraud trial were unable to reach a unanimous verdict, and a mistrial was declared. However, prosecutors say the’ll go ahead with another trial, since jurors were deadlocks 10-2 in favor of convicting Eriksson. I’m [...]

Stefan Eriksson turned down a plea deal Monday, rejecting prosecutors’ offer that would have sent him to prison for two years and four months — “I cannot agree that I stole the car because I didn’t,” he said through an interpreter. If he’s convicted on all the charges facing him, he’ll go to jail for [...]

The Times has another comprehensive look at the collapse of Gizmondo and some of the personalities behind it. It details the spending excesses of the company’s execs and the criminal history of Carl Freer, which isn’t necessarily news, but it does make a connection between Freer (who’s been arrested on gun charges) and Xero Mobile, [...]

The LA Times has a comprehensive profile of Stefan Eriksson and Carl Freer, with a dateline of the infamous Uppsala, Sweden, that gave birth to the “Uppsala Mafia” these guys used to run with. As is the case pretty much anytime these guys are involved, it’s a pretty fascinating read. [tags]eriksson, stefan eriksson, gizmondo[/tags] —–>Follow [...]

I missed the news last week that another Ex-Gizmondo executive, Carl Freer, had been arrested in LA for trying to buy a handgun, showing a badge showing him as a deputy commissioner of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority’s police department — the same strange organization to which Stefan Eriksson is tied. Freer’s home and [...]