A Westside man has been sentenced to 17 months in jail for stealing three tablet computers from an Ellensburg box store two years ago.
The Ellensburg Daily Record says the sentence was handed down to 33-year-old Abdi Wasuge of Seattle in Kittitas County Superior Court following his guilty pleas to two counts of second-degree theft and organized retail theft – both of which are felonies.
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Prosecutors say Wasuge asked a clerk in the store’s electronics department to show him three different models of tablet computer, which he quickly snatched from a demonstration counter before running out of the store.
Authorities say the total retail value of the stolen computers was about $2,900…