Colorado Man Sentenced For Stealing Nebraska Sheriff's Office ATVs

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — A 37-year-old Colorado man has been given one to three years in a Nebraska prison for stealing two all-terrain vehicles and a trailer from a sheriff's department.

Online court records say Richard Keith, of Evans, Colorado, was sentenced Monday in Lincoln County District Court. He was given credit for 235 days already served. Keith had pleaded no contest March 21 to a felony theft charge after Lincoln County prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office says the ATVs and a trailer were taken from a county roads department lot in North Platte late on July 29 or early on July 30 last year. The items were recovered in August in the Greeley, Colorado, area.

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