Staff photos / Ed Runyan Jasper Sloat, 22, of Alliance, left, listens to his attorney, Doug Taylor, following Sloat’s sentencing hearing Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Sloat received five years in prison for breaking into a home and stealing guns in Sebring in August.

YOUNGSTOWN — Jasper Sloat, 22, has never been to prison before.

But he was sentenced to five years in prison Monday morning after pleading guilty earlier to burglary, theft, being a felon in possession of a firearm, theft from a person in a protected class and a gun specification.

He received his sentence from Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Sloat, of Alden Avenue in Alliance, was arrested Aug. 10 after police were called for a suspicious person and saw Sloat throw something. It was a handgun that had been stolen earlier from a home on Indiana Avenue in Sebring.

Sloat also had another firearm in his possession that also was stolen from the Indiana Avenue home.

Sloat then admitted to having committed the burglary and led police to an alley where he hid several other guns he had stolen. No one was home at the time of the burglary.

Sloat gets credit for 111 days already served in the Mahoning County jail.

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