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East St Louis, IL

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A for­mer Alton police offi­cer who stole money from an evi­dence vault and lied to inves­ti­ga­tors has been resen­tenced to a decade in fed­eral prison.

A fed­eral judge in East St. Louis also ordered 50-year-old Mickey Doo­ley to pay nearly $49,000 in restitution.

Doo­ley was indicted in Jan­u­ary 2008 on charges that accused him of lying to inves­ti­ga­tors, steal­ing money from an evi­dence room and com­mit­ting wire fraud, among other crimes. Jurors con­victed him in Sep­tem­ber 2008.

A fed­eral appeals court in Chicago later reversed Dooley’s con­vic­tion on a wire-fraud count and ordered him resen­tenced. The pun­ish­ment imposed Mon­day was the same as his orig­i­nal sentence.

Pros­e­cu­tors alleged the 24-year Alton police vet­eran used the stolen money from the evi­dence vault to sup­port a gam­bling habit.

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