Court sends DeAnglo X to prison for a 30-month stint

Kristin Kernen

Former Iowa State student DeAnglo X, originally known as DeAnglo Moore, is going to prison.

DeAnglo X was sentenced last week and remains in custody after pleading guilty to two charges of bank fraud and one charge of possessing and disposing of stolen property.

U.S. Attorney’s Office officials said DeAnglo X was sentenced to 30 months on each of the three counts, which will be served consecutively. Following his release, DeAnglo X will serve three years of supervised release. The federal court system does not allow any chance for parole.

DeAnglo X pled guilty to the charges in January of 1994. He and his wife, Cassandra Moore, stole cashier’s checks and money orders from Firstar Bank in Ames, where they worked as janitors in the fall of 1993.

DeAnglo X wrote millions of dollars worth of bad checks, and used fraudulent money orders to purchase a vehicle at Rydell Chevrolet in Waterloo. After DeAnglo X was arrested in Waterloo, he and his wife fled to Georgia during a period of pretrial release.

DeAnglo X was later found and brought back to Iowa to face charges in February of 1996.

He received a lighter sentence because all of the stolen money and the vehicle were recovered. The court recommended that prison officials consider DeAnglo X for the Intensive Confinement Program.

DeAnglo X was a student at ISU in the fall of 1993. He originally attracted attention after being expelled from an African-American history class when the professor, Christine Pope, claimed he was disruptive.