End in sight for inmate Bollea

Nick Bollea -- the most famous inmate at the Pinellas County Jail and perhaps the jail's most famous inmate ever -- turns 18 on Sunday.

While the jail is not holding a birthday celebration, Bollea will be moved from juvenile confinement to the central division, where he'll live in a wide-open "direct-supervision" housing area with up to 71 other adult men, sheriff's spokeswoman Marianne Pasha said today.

He will keep the same job, working in the inmate property section of the jail, according to Pasha.

On May 9, Bollea, the son of former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, was sentenced to eight months in jail after pleading no contest to reckless driving with serious bodily injury.

His work at the jail has taken days off his sentence, Pasha said, and he'll likely be released in October. That means Bollea's jail time will probably end up being closer to five months.

Jonathan Abel, Times staff writer