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The infamous Butt Bandit has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for making imprints of his butt (and sometimes more) on windows in the north-central Nebraska city of Valentine.
Cherry County Attorney Eric Scott says police caught 35-year-old Thomas Larvie in the act on November 19.
Scott says Larvie was sentenced on [...]

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