In what’s prone to be the penultimate replace on this story, barring any further arrests, on Could 9, Ricky Alderete, the arrested, admitted thief of Wichita's Jackie Robinson statue, pleaded responsible to aggravated housebreaking, aggravated felony harm to property, interference with the legislation. enforcement, felony harm to property, theft, forgery, and identification theft in a Sedgwick County, Kansas court docket.
The report from The Wichita Eagle signifies that the crimes of felony harm to property and theft are straight linked to the theft of the statue. In distinction, the crimes of forgery and identification theft are the crimes that led to Alderete's identification and arrest.
On the listening to, District Choose Tyler Roush knowledgeable Alderete that publicity to the felony offenses pleaded is 229 months, which is simply over 19 years, in jail, and 6 months within the county jail . Choose Roush additionally indicated that he may order Alderete to pay $41,500 in restitution to League 42, the house owners of the Wichita Jackie Robinson statue.
The native report indicated that the choose ordered the utmost sentence for Alderete on this case. KSNW's Stephanie Nutt reported that Alderete “ought to serve a most sentence of 19 years and one month in jail and 6 months in jail.”
In my opinion, this report is almost certainly in error for 2 causes. First, the sentencing listening to is about for July 1, and Alderete pleading out will doubtless achieve some leniency from the court docket. As for clemency, I truthfully don’t know, as a result of I don't know the internal workings of the Sedgwick County District Legal professional or the Sedgwick County Probation Division.
As of this text, there have been no further arrests regardless that the Wichita Police Division is effectively conscious that a minimum of three individuals had been concerned within the theft and destruction of the Jackie Robinson statue.
The stays of the statue had been transferred to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and Main League Baseball pledged to help the soon-to-be-rebuilt statue in perpetuity.
