Naked Nicolas Cage stalker pleads guilty
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Actor Nicolas Cage arrives for the premiere of the film "National Treasure: Book Of Secrets" in New York December 13, 2007.

Actor Nicolas Cage arrives for the premiere of the film "National Treasure: Book Of Secrets" in New York Dec. 13, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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    BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A San Pedro, California, man arrested in the Newport Beach home of Nicolas Cage -- naked except for the actor's leather jacket -- pleaded guilty Thursday to felony stalking and was ordered into a drug rehabilitation program.

    Robert Dennis Furo Jr., 46, was given credit for time served in the Orange County Jail and ordered to undergo six months of rehabilitation, consisting of one month in lockdown and five months in a residential facility, according to Farrah Emami of the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

    Superior Court Judge Karen Robinson also ordered Furo to have no direct, indirect or third-party contact with the Oscar-winning actor and to remain at least 100 yards away from the Cage family, Emami said.

    Furo, arrested Oct. 1, was initially charged with burglary and theft with a prior conviction, but those counts were dismissed. Furo, who has worked as a caregiver, will be transferred Friday from the jail to a rehab facility in Tarzana, defense attorney Jack Kayajanian said.

    Furo has relatives who live in the Bayshore gated community in Newport Beach where Cage bought a home, Kayajanian said. Furo has a sticker on his car to get into the community, which is on a parcel where John Wayne's estate was once located, he said.

    At the time he wandered into the Cage home, Furo was taking sleeping pills and Vicodin, for which he has a prescription, but was taking more than prescribed, the lawyer said.

    Police said Cage, who was upstairs with his wife and child, reported seeing Furo, whom he did not know, standing at the door of the bathroom, and that he was naked, except for the leather jacket.

    Cage escorted the man out, and Furo did not resist the actor, star of such films as "Leaving Las Vegas," "The Rock" and the "National Treasure" films, according to police.

    (Agencies)

Editor: Gareth Dodd
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