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Automotive Engineer Gets Eight Years in Prison for Stealing Auto Parts

COLUMBUS, OH—Kerry Ketchem, 62, an automotive engineer, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on three counts of felony theft involving a scheme to steal catalytic converters from an assembly plant. MORE

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