A burglar arrested last year after he was confronted by an armed neighbor has been sentenced to a decade behind bars, the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record reported Thursday.
Trevor Peret Richards, 26, pleaded guilty Monday in Garland County Circuit Court to a felony count of residential burglary in the Dec. 8 break-in at a residence along Bald Mountain Road east of Hot Springs.
According to a probable cause affidavit cited by the newspaper, a nearby resident saw Richards park and walk toward a home. The neighbor walked behind the home and saw Richards leaving from a sliding-glass door, the affidavit said, at which point the neighbor fired a handgun once into the ground.
The neighbor later pointed the gun at Richards when the burglar tried to return to his vehicle. Richards fled into the woods and was later arrested about a mile away.
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