BANGOR, Maine — The Orono man who was sentenced in May to 60 years in prison for the 2013 murder and kidnapping of Glenburn teen Nichole Cable, pleaded guilty to three unrelated crimes Tuesday and was sentenced to concurrent time behind bars.
Kyle Dube, 22, in March was found guilty of murder and kidnapping in the 15-year-old girl’s death on May 12, 2013.
Shortly after he was charged with murder, Dube was indicted on felony burglary and two felony theft charges for stealing a gun from a Kenduskeag home in January 2013 and jewelry, silverware and other valuables from a Glenburn home in March 2013.
Penobscot County District Attorney R. Christopher Almy and Dube’s attorney Stephen Smith agreed to a two-year concurrent sentence and restitution in the amount of $1,345 dollars.
Judge Gregory Campbell accepted the plea agreement and ordered that Dube also pay $60 in victim fees. Smith said the restitution would come from Dube’s prison commissary account.
In June 2013, members of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from Maine State Police and the Orono Police Department, searched Dube’s residence in Orono looking for stolen property. They found one of the stolen firearms from the Kenduskeag burglary and items stolen during the Glenburn theft, which was investigated by the Maine State Police.
The gun theft victim told Campbell that Dube actually took three weapons: a .44-caliber magnum, a 9 mm handgun and a collectible pre-1964 .22-caliber rifle.
“I knew it was him from Day One,” the Kenduskeag man said in court Tuesday, asking not to be identified.
Police have said they will return the .44-caliber magnum, but the other weapons were never recovered. The restitution is for him, Almy said.
The items stolen from Glenburn were taken from the mother of Dube’s former girlfriend, whom his defense team accused of committing the crime during Dube’s trial.
In May, Superior Court Justice Ann Murray imposed a sentence of 60 years on the murder charge and a concurrent sentence of 30 years on the kidnapping charge. In addition to prison time, Murray ordered Dube to pay about $12,000 in restitution toward Cable’s funeral expenses.
Jurors found that Dube lured Cable from her mother’s home in Glenburn by creating a fake Facebook page and strangled her in an abduction gone wrong.
The Friday following his sentencing, Smith filed an appeal of Dube’s conviction and sentence.
Dube’s mom and another woman sat in the front row in the courtroom.
Almy said after court Tuesday that it would have been a waste of taxpayer money to take Dube to trial in order to get a consecutive sentence.
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