Man gets 15 months for wine theft from Napa Valley's The French Laundry

Mar 29, 2017

(NVR) - The French Laundry’s wine thief will finally be serving some time in prison more than two years after stealing thousands of dollars in fine wine from the three-star Michelin restaurant in Yountville.

Davis Kiryakoz, 45, of Modesto was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday to 15 months in prison following his conspiracy conviction in the theft of more than $500,000 worth of wine from the famed Napa Valley restaurant, prosecutors said. U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman also ordered Kiryakoz to pay nearly $600,000 in restitution, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Abraham Simmons said.

Kiryakoz pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to transport stolen goods. Prosecutors said he acknowledged stealing 110 bottles of high-end wine from The French Laundry in December 2014 and later selling some of it to a buyer in North Carolina.


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