LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to six to nine years in prison for trying to sell copper stolen from a construction site.

25-year-old Joey Delaney was sentenced Thursday after pleading to burglary and theft charges. Court records show Delaney was on probation for a previous burglary conviction when he was arrested July 18.

Authorities say they found Delaney and two others at Alter Metal Recycling in Lincoln trying to sell 65 spools of electrical wire stolen from a storage container at a construction site. The copper weighed 991 pounds.

In December 2013, a judge gave Delaney three years of probation and up to 180 days in jail. Delaney requested intensive supervised probation on the new charges, but instead got up to nine years.