Ricky Alderete, the Kansas man who pleaded guilty to stealing a Jackie Robinson statue from a youth baseball league, received a 15-year prison sentence for multiple cases.
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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. 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.
A GoFundMe page set up by the league raised nearly $200,000 before the fundraising link was closed Feb. 5, less than two weeks from when the statue went missing. Bob Lutz, League 42's executive director, estimated that League 42 received between $500,000 and $600,000 in total.
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