From the Associated Press:

A retired Army colonel has been sentenced to prison for getting a classmate at the Army War College to take a paternity test in his place. The retired officer, Scott Carlson, 53, was convicted in September on charges that included conspiracy and attempted theft by deception. His lawyer, Dennis Boyle, said he planned to appeal the 4-to-23-month prison sentence that a county judge ordered. Mr. Carlson was convicted of arranging for a fellow officer attending the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., to submit a DNA sample and thumbprint for a paternity test in 2006 so he could avoid paying additional child support for a 10-year-old girl he fathered through an extramarital affair with an enlisted woman.