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Brent James Ingham, 28, received a stay of a year and a day in jail and will serve a punitive 60-day sentence on electronic home monitoring with four days credit for time served. Ingham must also pay a $1,000 fine.
Ingham said he recognized what he did was wrong and was taking steps to better his life, including completing an inpatient alcohol treatment program and receiving continued aftercare.
Judge Mary Leahy said that although Ingham was extremely intoxicated at the time of the crime, it didn’t change its severity. The people who lived in that apartment were “frightened” by the burglary, she said.
Police responded to a break-in at 1:48 a.m. Jan. 4 at an apartment in the 200 block of East Sanborn Street. Inside, they found Ingham hiding under a bed near a laundry basket full of items they said he intended to steal. The basket included DVDs, a digital camera, a cell phone and odd items including a butterfly wind chime and a brick painted green with people’s names on it, according to the police report.
Ingham admitted in June he wanted to steal the items and sell them to support his “chemical dependency habits.”
Contact Kevin Behr at (507) 453-3524 or at kbehr@winonadailynews.com.
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