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Man sentenced for stealing lynx

BLOOMSBURG — A northeastern Pennsylvania man was sentenced Thursday to nine to 20 years in state prison for stealing an exotic cat from a dealer.

William Bobbett, 29, of Wilkes-Barre was convicted in May of robbery and other offenses in last year's gunpoint theft of an endangered Canadian lynx.

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