A Judge in Pottawattamie County has ruled a man from Council Bluffs will serve four-months in prison and three-years of supervised release, in connection with the transporting of stolen truck repair equipment across state lines from Omaha to Council Bluffs.  40-year old Joseph Patrick Connor was sentenced Tuesday by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey, who also ordered Connor to pay restitution amounting to $30,000.

On March 18th, Connor pled guilty to the charge of interstate transportation of stolen property. The charge was the result of an investigation conducted by several law enforcement agencies into the theft of tools from Hatcher Mobile Services of Omaha, Nebraska, taken during a burglary committed on March 20th, 2012. Many of the tools taken during the burglary were recovered from the back of a straight truck found in Council Bluffs,  by the Iowa State Patrol. The value of the tools taken during the burglary was estimated to be over $100,000.

The investigation was conducted by the Omaha Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, the Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.