HONOLULU (AP) _ One of two men convicted of stealing Hawaiian artifacts from a Big Island burial cave has been sentenced in federal court to eleven months in prison.
Daniel Taylor had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in 2006. He could receive up to one year in prison and a 100-thousand-dollar fine for violating the Native American Protection and Repatriation Act.
Taylor's co-defendant, John Carta, was sentenced in January to one year in prison. But he died the following month, before he could begin serving his sentence.
Federal officials say Taylor and Carta stole about 157 artifacts from Kanupa Cave in Kohala in 2004.
Last month, Taylor was indicted by a state grand jury on one count of felony theft.
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