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A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty Tuesday to striking and killing a bicyclist while driving under the influence of drugs.

Kevin D. Meister, 36, also pleaded guilty to drug possession related to the Aug. 5 crash that killed Shelton Berel, 33, of Madison, who was struck while riding his bicycle on Lincoln Road in the town of Oregon.

Meister also pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor theft, for thefts that occurred while on the job last year. In January, Meister pleaded guilty to bail jumping, for attempting to substitute clean urine for his own urine while taking a drug test for the Dane County Bail Monitoring Program on Aug. 25.

Meister entered the pleas about three weeks before he was scheduled to go to trial for Berel’s death.

Prosecutors did not state a maximum sentence that they would seek when Meister is sentenced by Circuit Judge William Hanrahan in about two months. But the homicide by driving under the influence of drugs conviction carries a penalty of up to 40 years of combined prison and extended supervision, and the drug possession conviction carries up to 3½ years.

Each of the theft charges carries a maximum sentence of nine months in jail, and the bail jumping charge has a six-year maximum sentence.