A youth baseball league in Wichita, Kansas, will unveil a new statue of Jackie Robinson, replacing one that was stolen and vandalized six months ago. The community has since rallied to put an American icon back where he belongs. NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports in this week’s Sunday Spotlight.
WICHITA, Kan. — The man who stole a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas is going to spend about 15 years in prison, although most of that time is related to a burglary that happened a few days after the January statue heist. A judge sentenced Ricky Alderete on Friday on three different cases that he said in court stemmed from his addiction to fentanyl.
He was sentenced to 18 months and ordered to pay $41,500 restitution for stealing the statue. He got the most time for an aggravated burglary that happened Feb. 1 that carried a sentence of 13.5 years in prison. “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 said in court Friday. “I am embarrassed, I’m ashamed. Whatever you do today I accept. I am ready for that.
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