ST. LOUIS, MO — The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Ronald Schweppe of Caseyville, Illinois was sentenced to 18 months in prison today in United States District Court for his part in a multi-state stolen property ring.
RONALD SCHWEPPE, Caseyville, IL, was the subject of an undercover investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Missouri Highway Patrol and the Illinois State Police.
Schweppe appeared before Judge Rodney W. Sippel in St. Louis.
According to the plea agreement, Schweppe stole in excess of $120,000 worth of property, including construction equipment and recreational vehicles, and transported it between Missouri and Illinois for the purpose of hiding and fencing it.
Because the investigators were able to locate and return all of the stolen property, no restitution was ordered beyond “buy money” used by law enforcement during the investigation.
Schweppe, who was on federal supervised release at the time of his arrest last year, faces a proceeding to revoke that supervision in the Southern District of Illinois.
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