Man who fled police through post office sentencedWHIOUPDATE @ 6:20 p.m. March 4, 2015: The Carlisle man who escaped police by running through the Lebanon Post Office and stealing a patron's car in January has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Judge Donald Oda II also ordered Nicholas Neeley, …
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