JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian curator Suhadi Darmodipuro has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for helping steal six ancient Buddhist statues and replace them with replicas, the Associated Press reports. The 70-year-old curator at the Radya Pustaka Museum was one of four people arrested in connection with the 2006 crime, in which a number of stone statues from the 4th century were stolen and sold to a Dutch curator for $3,500 to $20,000 each. Replicas made by local stonemasons were then put on display in the museum. The originals were later found in the house of a wealthy businessman in Jakarta. "I've given 50 years of my life to service the museum," said Darmodipuro after the verdict. "It was a big mistake...I very much regret it and accept this sentence."