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Restitution ordered in dinosaur footprint theft

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who pleaded guilty in the theft of a priceless fossilized dinosaur footprint that's never been recovered was sentenced Monday to a year of probation and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution. Jared Ehlers, 35, in February pried a piece of sandstone with an ancient three-toed dinosaur track from a trail for off-road vehicles near Moab in southeastern Utah, federal prosecutors say. Ehlers, who co-owns a construction company, spotted the print one day while on the Hell's Revenge jeep trail and noticed it was loose. John Faustman Cowan was accused of stealing a dinosaur footprint in 2010, but prosecutors dismissed the charge after he followed terms of a pretrial agreement.

 

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