We'll all have to answer for some things when we reach the Pearly Gates, I know I will. But I'm glad I don't have to face what this guy has to.

A Deadwood, South Dakota 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.

The Associated Press contributed to this story

 

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