A man serving prison time in connection with a killing in Spartanburg County has pleaded guilty to a local break-in.

Leroy Harry Leek Jr., 56, of 4251 Clifton-Glendale Road, Spartanburg, pleaded guilty Thursday in General Sessions Court to burglary and grand larceny. Leek admitted to breaking into a home on 2223 Buffalo-West Springs Highway on March 13, 2007 and taking firearms.

The victim told deputies he came home and found someone had pried open a sliding glass door to enter his residence.

A gun cabinet and a curio cabinet in the victim’s bedroom were broken open. Items stolen include a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, a .22 caliber High Standard revolver, a .22 caliber Marlin bolt action rifle, a 12-gauge Remington pump shotgun, a 12 gauge Browning/Remington automatic shotgun, a 30/30 Winchester lever action rifle, a 30.06 Remington automatic rifle, a .22 caliber automatic rifle (unknown brand), six boxes of shotgun shells, two boxes of .22 caliber cartridges, a 35 mm camera with zoom lens and $1,000 in silver coins.

Around $900 damage was done to the door and the cabinets. The items stolen were worth around $2,370.

Leek was charged with the break-in on Jan. 7, 2009.

Lt. Kenneth Riddle said Leek was living in a mobile home near the victim at the time of the theft and knew the victim's habits. Later, when Leek was arrested in the Spartanburg County manslaughter, deputies searched his home and found one of the guns stolen in the Union County burglary.

Circuit Judge Edward Miller of Greenville sentenced Leek to 30 years in prison on the burglary charge and 10 years on the grand larceny charge. The sentences are to run concurrently with sentences he received on Dec. 12, 2009 for voluntary manslaughter.