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BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A convicted felon was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for plucking a $5 bill from a collection jar intended to help a policeman blinded in a shooting.
Richard Hedger II, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to felony theft for stealing from the jar, placed on a thrift-store counter. Money in the jar was meant for Belleville police Sgt. Jon Brough, 48, who was shot in the face and permanently blinded in November by a double-slaying suspect who later killed himself.
"We've had so much community support, then you get someone who steps in and snatches money," said police Lt. Don Sax, whose said his dealings with Hedger have included peace disturbances, assaults and other thefts.
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