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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A federal judge in Salt Lake City has ordered a St. George businessman held pending trial for mail fraud in an alleged $250 million Internet scheme.
U.S. District Magistrate Judge David Nuffer agreed Monday with prosecutors who argued Jeremy David Johnson presented a serious flight risk.
Johnson was arrested June 11 as he waited in Phoenix for a flight to Costa Rica. Federal agents say Johnson was carrying more than $26,000 in cash and a one-way plane ticket.
Jeremy David Johnson pleaded not guilty to the charge last week. He's set for a detention hearing in Salt Lake City's U.S. District Court on Monday.
Defense attorney Nathan Crane argued Johnson wouldn't flee.
Prosecutors allege Johnson's company, iWorks, sent software to consumers for a supposedly risk-free trial, but then billed them online anyway.
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