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Ex-librarian, bookseller get home detention in library theft

| June 23, 2020 12:03 AM

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former librarian and a bookseller who pleaded guilty in the theft of rare books from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in a years-long scheme have been sentenced to lengthy terms of home detention and probation by an Allegheny County judge who cited the coronavirus in sparing them time behind bars.

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