Publicity-seeker Todd Baldwin, 25, who falsely posed as aresearcher for the Guinness Book of World Records, has been sentencedto eight years in prison for armed robbery and residential burglary.
Baldwin, of Des Plaines, who also falsely posed as a multipleGuinness record holder, pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge RichardA. Salzman in Des Plaines to three residential burglaries and anarmed robbery.
Baldwin, who became known as a headline-grabber in 1985 and1986, duped at least one Chicago TV station with his story aboutworking for Guinness.
He also once told disc jockeys Steve Dahl and Garry Meier - onthe air - that he was Chicago Sun-Times reporter Ray …
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