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Ptah

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Fri Aug 2, 2024, 09:18 PM Aug 2024

Man gets 15 years in prison for stealing Jackie Robinson statue

The Kansas man who pleaded guilty to stealing a Jackie Robinson statue from a Wichita youth baseball league earlier this year was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for multiple cases, police said.

Ricky Alderete, 45, had pleaded guilty in May to theft, related to the January disappearance of the statue, and other charges. He had faced more than 19 years.

The prosecutor's office had said Alderete would be forced to pay $41,500 to League 42, the youth baseball organization named after the Brooklyn Dodgers legend.

There have been no more arrests connected to the case, but surveillance video showed at least two other people present when the statue was cut from its stand, leaving the bronze replicas of Robinson's cleats behind. Parts of the statue were later found, charred from a fire, in another park seven miles away. Police have maintained they don't believe the crime to be racially motivated but instead "by the financial gain of scrapping common metal."


https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40711496/man-gets-15-years-prison-stealing-jackie-robinson-statue
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Man gets 15 years in prison for stealing Jackie Robinson statue (Original Post) Ptah Aug 2024 OP
Pretty quick Inkey Aug 2024 #1
Two More Involved, Too ProfessorGAC Aug 2024 #2

ProfessorGAC

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2. Two More Involved, Too
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 06:32 PM
Aug 2024

He might have gotten the boom lowered because he wouldn't cooperate about his co-conspirators.

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