A Lincoln man caught red-handed trying to sell copper stolen from a construction site went to prison Thursday for six to nine years.
Joey Delaney, 25, was on probation for burglary at the time and asked for intensive supervised probation on the new charge.
"From all this, I want to learn something, I ... want to be rehabilitated," he said. "I want to see myself succeed."
On July 18, Lincoln police arrested him and two others at Alter Metal Recycling trying to sell 65 spools of electrical wire stolen the night before from a storage container at the construction site of the Aventine apartment complex off Yankee High Road.
The copper weighed 991 pounds, nearly half a short ton.
Delaney since has admitted to violating the probation he was on for getting caught Jan. 31, 2013, by the victim of a burglary selling a Craftsman tool chest on Craigslist. Delaney admitted to police he'd stolen it and other items from the man's garage, according to court records.
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In December 2013, Lancaster County District Judge Steven Burns gave Delaney three years of probation and 180 days in jail, or three months with good time.
On Thursday, Burns resentenced him to two to three years on the burglary charge and gave him four to six years more on the theft. Delaney pleaded no contest to both of the charges.