PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man has been sentenced to about 4½ years in prison after pleading guilty to two home break-ins.
Mark Thomas Keend, 31, was sentenced last week in Clallam County Superior Court to 43 months plus 364 days after he pleaded guilty to two counts of residential burglary and one count of third-degree possession of stolen property.
The charges stem from Keend and 20-year-old Addison Gale-Romack, also of Port Angeles, breaking into two homes, one twice, and stealing firearms, knives, a computer, jewelry, collector sports cards, old coins, a cellphone and other objects.
Keend was listed Saturday on the roster of the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton.
Pleaded guilty
Gale-Romack has pleaded guilty to two counts of residential burglary related to the break-ins and is set to be sentenced Nov. 20.
She remained in the county jail Saturday in lieu of $15,000 bail.
According to Clallam County sheriff’s deputies accounts, Keend and Gale-Romack broke into a home along Gerber Road off state Highway 112 west of Port Angeles on Aug. 21 and Sept. 5 and stole two firearms, chain saws, knives, BB guns, a weed trimmer and various tools.
Port Angeles police accounts say the pair broke into a home in the 900 block of West 16th Street on Sept. 6 and stole two dresser drawers full of personal belongings.
After witness interviews, deputies and police arrested Keend and Gale-Romack on Sept. 6 at a trailer home the pair shared in the woods on Highway 112 near Milepost 52.
Deputies found the dresser drawers from the 16th Street break-in and other stolen items near the trailer home.
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