Sentences handed down for Arrow, DOT burglars

Paul S. Bickle and Vikki Kropp, who were arrested after officers located stacks of stolen property at a mobile home where they had been living in LaCrosse, were both sentenced last Friday in superior court. The arrests ended a summer crime spree in which businesses at Colfax and Pullman, and the Department of Transportation were hit.

Bickle, 35, was sentenced to 68 months in prison. Originally charged with 21 counts, he pleaded guilty Oct. 29 to a reduced charge of four counts of burglary.

Bickle, who has a record on 10 crimes going back 14 years in Kitsap County, had an offender score of 22....