Craig Daily Press

Craig — The Craig Police Department is asking for the public’s help with an investigation into a burglary at a local convenience store.

Police reported that an un­­known suspect burglarized the Gofer Foods store, located in the 900 block of E. Victory Way, about 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The store was entered without force, Det. Ken Johnson said.

The burglary netted the suspect 573 scratch lottery tickets, ranging in cost from $1 to $20, which were taken from the store’s counter. No money or merchandise was taken, police reported.

There are no suspects at this time, Johnson said. He added that store employees were eliminated as suspects after questioning.

“There is nothing to indicate they would be involved,” Johnson said. “We believe it’s an outside person who figured something out.”

The burglar could have gotten money from the store, the detective said.

“It was there,” he said. “Had they looked around, they would have found it.”

The store was last burglarized in fall 2007. The investigation into Thursday’s burglary is ongoing, police said.

Anyone with information about the burglary is to call Johnson at 826-2384 or Moffat County Crime Stoppers at 824-3535.

In other news:

• A Craig man who pleaded guilty to robbing a local Kum & Go convenience store in September was sentenced Thursday in Moffat County Court.

Judge Sandra Gardner sentenced Keone Beaulieu-Kal­ilikane, who pleaded guilty to robbery, a class 4 felony, to four years supervised probation.

Brett Barkey, chief deputy district attorney, asked the court to impose a four-year prison sentence. He asked for the sentence to “deter other violence.”

“I have to respect the court’s ruling,” Barkey said, “but I am deeply disappointed.”

Beaulieu-Kalilikane was scheduled to be released Thursday from the Moffat County Jail, where he had been held since his arrest in November.

• Gardner sentenced Craig man Jerome Nash to six years in prison on several charges.

Separate juries convicted Nash of possession of methamphetamine and violating bail bond conditions. He also pleaded guilty to attempted distribution of methamphetamine and violating terms of probation.

“By sending Mr. Nash to prison today, the court made an important statement in our community’s fight against the methamphetamine epidemic,” Barkey said in a news release.

Nash will be transferred from the county jail to the Department of Corrections.