A Jonesville man who admitted to two thefts was given a five-year prison sentence Tuesday.
Joseph Cochran, 31, of 146 Proctor Road pleaded guilty to second offense third-degree burglary, malicious damage to property and petit larceny.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but Circuit Judge Lee Alford suspended the sentence to five years, gave Cochran five years of probation and ordered him to pay $3,990 in restitution.
Cochran admitted to breaking into a utility building on Pineview Road in 2007 and taking fishing tackle, rods and reels. He admitted to stealing a motor and wire from a generator on Monarch Highway in July 2008 and taking these items to a scrap yard. The generator was destroyed in the theft.