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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n ST. LOUIS, MO — The United States Attorney\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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