DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) - A Deadwood man who admitted to burglarizing two churches has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Judge Michelle Percy also ordered 52-year-old Steven Purchase to pay nearly $1,100 in restitution.
Purchase pleaded guilty to burglarizing St. Ambrose Catholic Church in May 2014. Purchase cut himself, leaving blood on a broken window, and DNA connected him to the crime.
In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors dropped a second burglary charge, for a break-in at Grace Lutheran Church.
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