DENVER (KDVR) — A man who stole a Jeep from a gas station in Aurora on April 21 pleaded guilty on Thursday to two charges.
Kirk Abercrombie, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of motor vehicle theft and one count of reckless endangerment. He was sentenced on Thursday to serve three years of probation for each charge. The sentences will run concurrently.
The incident occurred at a gas station near Havana Street and Iliff Avenue. Police alerted the public at about 9:40 p.m., sharing the news of the abducted child and stolen vehicle before an Amber Alert could be posted. Shortly after the Amber Alert was posted by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and other agencies, Abercrombie was arrested.
Through the plea agreement, Abercrombie had six further charges against him dropped. Those charges included second-degree kidnapping and child abuse.
According to an arrest affidavit for Abercrombie, the owner of the vehicle had left the keys in the ignition while she ran into the convenience store of the gas station for "three minutes." She returned to find the vehicle, and her child, gone.
The affidavit states that Abercrombie "made no attempts to return the child once he noticed that (the child) was in the vehicle or even take the child out of the vehicle and leave (the child) somewhere while he continued his criminal acts." According to police, Abercrombie made it about 72 miles from the gas station before he was arrested.
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