TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 54-year-old Kansas jewelry store owner has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for knowingly buying jewelry that had been stolen in home invasions.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says John O. Dasher of Silver Lake pleaded guilty in June to one count of transporting goods. Dasher admitted the crimes happened from 2010 to 2013 while he owned the Diamond House in Topeka.

Prosecutors say Dasher paid a fraction of the actual value of the jewelry, which he melted down to form scrap gold. He then mailed the gold scrap to gold wholesalers in Los Angeles.

Dasher agreed to forfeit $130,000 as a condition of the plea deal. He was sentenced on Wednesday.