GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - A Grand Island woman facing dozens of felony theft charges will be forced to take anti-psychotic drugs so she’s competent to stand trial.

Judge Andrew Butler made that decision Thursday in the case of 47-year-old Kelli Lepler.

Lepler 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 gone to trial.

After she was charged in 2023, Lepler left the state and was arrested later that year in Missouri.

In November 2024 Butler denied Lepler’s request to move the trial out of Hall County.

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