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Police announced Tuesday the arrest of a 45-year-old man in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that later was found dismantled and burned.Wichita<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/45-year-old-man-arrested-in-jackie-robinson-statue-theft-that-was-not-motivated-by-race-police-say/">Read More</a>
Police say a 45-year-old man has been arrested in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue found dismantled and burned. Wichita police say Tuesday that Ricky Alderete was taken into custody in an unrelated case earlier this month and charged Monday. Police say the motive appeared to be financial and was unrelated to race. Thieves cut the bronze statue from its base at a Wichita park where a youth baseball league called League 42 plays. It is named after Robinson’s uniform number with the Brooklyn Dodgers, with whom he broke the major leagues’ color barrier in 1947. Alderete does not yet have an attorney and calls to numbers believed to belong to his family members were unsuccessful.