Man Gets Year in Jail for a Burglary--at Jail
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<i> Associated Press</i>
HOUSTON — A man has been sentenced to a year in jail--for breaking into jail.
David Matthew Winfree, 22, pleaded guilty to burglary for breaking into the Municipal Prison Farm and was sentenced Friday to a year in the Harris County Jail.
Winfree, a landscaper, was apprehended inside a maintenance building with a $270 battery charger. He told police he was looking for landscaping tools to steal.
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