(The Bloomington Pantagraph posted the following article on its website on April 8.)
PONTIAC, Mich. — Two men accused of taking Japanese beer from derailed railroad cars have been sentenced to jail time.
Mark A. Wiborg, 31, of Seneca, and Kenneth G. Haff, 26, of Marseilles, each were convicted of one count of felony theft after they entered pleas in Livingston County Circuit Court on March 16.
Charges of malicious removal of railroad freight were dismissed.
Haff, who was working as a security guard at the derailed train, was sentenced to 60 days in jail with work release and two years probation.
Wiborg was sentenced to 30 weekends in jail with two years of probation.
Deputies found the men loading cases of Sapporo beer into a truck.
The imported beer was on one of 13 container cars knocked off the track when a 105-car northbound train derailed in high winds Feb. 11 just outside Ancona.
The beer was worth $45 a case.