🌱 Why a rural Pleasanton man got prison time in Bates County

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• Why a rural Pleasanton man got prison time in Bates County

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📰 News we're reading

• Rural Pleasanton man receives four years for moving body (linncountyjournal.com) — A Bates County judge in Butler has sentenced rural Pleasanton resident Damon Leonard to four years in prison for abandoning the body of a 13-year-old boy killed by his dogs. Leonard admitted moving the boy’s body across the Missouri state line after the December attack near Holiday Lakes, then later led authorities to the site.
   

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