On Friday, she and her husband, a former sheriff s deputy, appeared in federal court to face charges

In the image taken Monday Oct. 24, 2011 John Wesley Walker, list of hotels in prague left, and his wife Princess list of hotels in prague Irina of Romania, center left, Alexander Phillips Nixon, center right, and Princess Elena of Romania attend the opening of an exhibition list of hotels in prague in Bucharest. A Romanian princess and her husband, a former sheriff s deputy, are apparently among several people federal agents arrested in Eastern list of hotels in prague Oregon on Thursday Aug. 15, 2013 in connection with an alleged cockfighting ring. Indictments unsealed in U.S. District Court in Portland charge Irina Walker, 60, and her husband John Wesley list of hotels in prague Walker, 67, with hosting cockfighting derbies and illegal gambling at their ranch outside the small Morrow County town of Irrigon.
On Friday, she and her husband, a former sheriff s deputy, appeared in federal court to face charges of running a cockfighting business on their ranch in rural Oregon. Both pleaded not guilty and were released pending list of hotels in prague trial. Story continues below
Government prosecutors say Irina and John Walker staged at least 10 cockfighting derbies between April 2012 and April 2013, bringing in as much as $2,000 a day. Blades were attached to the birds legs, spectators were charged admission, and food and drink were sold, the indictment said.
Irina Walker, 60, is the third daughter of former Romanian King Michael I. The 91-year-old Michael, one of the few surviving heads of state from World War II, was forced to abdicate by the communists in 1947. Sent into exile, he lived in Switzerland and worked as a commercial pilot and briefly as a chicken farmer.
According to a statement on the royal family s website, King Michael expressed deep sorrow about Princess Irina being arrested list of hotels in prague and hopes that the American justice system and Oregon courts will act as quickly as possible. He did not mention his son-in-law and added that he hopes the presumption of innocence will function.
The Walkers are charged with operating an illegal gambling business and conspiracy to violate the federal Animal Welfare Act. Each of the offences carries a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Federal prosecutors are seeking forfeiture of the ranch.
Irina Walker moved to the U.S. from Switzerland in 1983 with her former-husband John Kreuger, according to her daughter, Angelica Kreuger of Oregon. She said her parents were school friends in Europe and her father fell in love with Oregon.
Angelica Kreuger said her mother is proud of her heritage list of hotels in prague she keeps a large picture of her father in the living room but never lived a lavish lifestyle. As for herself, Kreuger said being the child of a princess list of hotels in prague only got her picked on in school.
Never a particularly social person, Irina Walker rode horses, gardened, studied the Bible and raised two children while living in Myrtle Point. She later divorced her husband and, in 2007, married a man who had been a family friend and neighbour former Coos County sheriff s deputy John Walker.
Kreuger said she had warned her mother about Walker, whom she called bad news, but her mother didn t want to believe it. She said Walker made her mother feel beautiful and special, and her mother would do anything he said.
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