The Kansas man who stole a Jackie Robinson statue from a park has been sentenced to fifteen years behind bars.
A decide 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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The statue was snatched in January. (Hulton Archive/Getty Photographs)
“I let fentanyl take over me and made a lot of poor decisions. I am not going to deny that. I never meant to hurt anybody,” he mentioned in courtroom Friday. “I am embarrassed, I’m ashamed. Whatever you do today, I accept. I am ready for that. I believe I am where I am supposed to be right now because, at the rate I am going, I might have been dead.”
In Could, Alderete pleaded responsible to aggravated housebreaking, aggravated prison injury to property, interference with regulation enforcement, prison injury 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,” in accordance with authorities.
The Wichita Hearth Division was known 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.
Police introduced Feb. 13 the arrest of a person within the theft of the Jackie Robinson statue that later was discovered dismantled and burned. (Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle by way of AP, File)
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The statue was lower from its base, leaving solely bronze replicas of the legendary baseball participant’s cleats behind. Robinson broke the Main League Baseball’s coloration 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 exchange it rolled in, together with $100,000 from Main League Baseball. The brand new statue might 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 at the moment are on show on the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri.
This March 4, 1946, file photograph reveals Jackie Robinson of the Montreal Royals in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photograph/Invoice Chaplis, File)
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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 extensively thought that the stress he endured all through his enjoying days contributed to an early loss of life.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
