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Published 12:00 am Monday, September 24, 2018

Wedding crasher pleads guilty — An Oregon man accused of crashing four weddings in Junction City on the same day and stealing more than $13,000 in gifts has pleaded guilty. Brian Keith Starr, 42, of Eugene, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of aggravated first-degree theft and felon in possession of a firearm. Court records show he also acknowledges he stole $5,300 in gifts from a fifth wedding weeks before his big haul on July 29. He received a 21⁄2-year prison sentence in exchange for his plea. Starr is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. Starr became a suspect after one of the newlyweds he stole from circulated a photo that her mother took of Starr at the reception on social media. He was arrested in August.

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