GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - A Grand Island woman will be forced to take antipsychotic medication in order to be tried for felony theft.

Kelli Lepler, 47, is charged in Hall County with 46 counts of theft by deception. Court documents show that Lepler is accused of taking money from customers to buy headstones and then not delivering them. Police said the victims’ losses totaled more than $200,000.

Lepler was charged with the crimes in September 2023 but has never been tried in court.

In January she was ruled incompetent to stand trial and has been under treatment at the Lincoln Regional Center ever since.

Court records show that prosecutors asked that Lepler be forced to take antipsychotic medicine in order to restore her fitness for trial. They wrote that Lepler’s psychiatrist at LRC

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