Havre man pleads guilty in crime spree

Ryan Schafer of Havre pleaded guilty Friday to two charges stemming from a series of thefts in the Havre area discovered last fall.

Schafer, born in 1977, pleaded guilty before Judge David Cybulski in state District Court in a plea deal to felony charges of theft and criminal mischief. He is scheduled for sentencing May 24.

He was charged with two felony counts of theft and two felony counts of criminal mischief.

In the plea agreement, the Hill County Attorneys Office recommended seven-year suspended sentences, to run at the same time, for the two counts to which Schafer pleaded guilty.

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