He took back the stuff he had stolen, but 22 year-old Thomas Ferguson is spending the first night of a 3 and a half year sentence after he pleaded guilty to burglarizing his neighbor's house.
According to police, at 5:30 on Wednesday evening, Dulce Sutherland arrived at her home on Fabers Road to find the back door of her house pried open. She checked inside and found out that the house was ransacked, and 22 hundred dollars' worth of electronics had been stolen.
She immediately reported the burglary to police, and when she returned home, she found the thief, Ferguson, bringing all her stolen items back. She called police who arrested and charged him with burglary and handling stolen goods.
He was arraigned today before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton, where he wasted no time and pleaded guilty asking for leniency. Because he pleaded guilty and the items were returned without the use of Government resources, Magistrate Hamilton decided to forgo the minimum penalty of 7 years, and he sentenced Ferguson to spend 3 and a half years in prison.
Email
Print