The Kansas man who stole a Jackie Robinson statue from a park has been sentenced to fifteen years behind bars.
A choose sentenced Ricky Alderete Friday. Most of that jail time is expounded to a different housebreaking that occurred days after the statue theft.
Alderete was concerned in a housebreaking on Feb. 1 he says was fueled by a fentanyl dependancy, and 13½ years of the sentence is expounded to that housebreaking.
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“I let fentanyl take over me and made a number of poor selections. I’m not going to disclaim that. I by no means meant to harm anyone,” he stated in court docket Friday. “I’m embarrassed, I’m ashamed. No matter you do immediately, I settle for. I’m prepared for that. I consider I’m the place I’m speculated to be proper now as a result of, on the price I’m going, I may need been lifeless.”
In Might, Alderete pleaded responsible to aggravated housebreaking, aggravated prison harm to property, interference with regulation enforcement, prison harm to property, theft, making a false writing and identification theft within the statue heist.
The statue was snatched from McAdams Park in January and was later “dismantled and burned,” based on authorities.
The Wichita Fireplace Division was referred to as to a trash can fireplace at Garvey Park round 8:30 a.m. Jan. 30, the place firefighters found remnants of the stolen statue.
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The statue was minimize from its base, leaving solely bronze replicas of the legendary baseball participant’s cleats behind. Robinson broke the Main League Baseball’s shade barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. The franchise moved in 1957 to California, the place it continues because the Los Angeles Dodgers.
After the unique statue was stolen, donations to switch it rolled in, together with $100,000 from Main League Baseball. The brand new statue will likely be unveiled Monday, with Joe Torre and CC Sabathia anticipated to be in attendance.
The bronze cleats that had been left behind when the unique statue was stolen are actually on show on the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri.
Within the majors, Robinson hit .313, gained an MVP in 1949 and was named an All-Star six instances. He additionally was a Negro League All-Star, giving him seven all-star nods in skilled baseball.
Robinson died in 1972 on the age of 53, and it’s broadly thought that the stress he endured all through his taking part in days contributed to an early demise.
The Related Press contributed to this report.