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Former Deputy Receives 3-Year Probation For Stealing, Trying To Sell Guns

LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — A former Lake County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to three years of supervised probation and must complete 100 hours of community service for stealing four guns from the department's evidence room and trying to sell one.

The district attorney's office says William Berry was sentenced Friday on charges of official misconduct and embezzlement of public property. He was convicted in May.

The investigation began when someone complained that he had paid Berry for a .38 Colt semi-automatic handgun but never received the weapon. The gun had been seized as evidence during an unrelated domestic violence investigation Berry initiated as the responding officer.

Berry removed the guns from the evidence room and duped the wife of the person accused in the domestic violence case into transferring ownership to him for $500 cash.

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