Safecracking case leads to guilty pleas

Eleven years in prison. That’s the fate of a Walhalla man today who stood before the judge and heard his sentences for safecracking and grand larceny. The man sentenced, Joshua Richard Dills, is 38 year old. According to a court officer, Dills and a co-defendant on March 14 last year broke into a safe in a building in the Fairfield Community and stole coins and jewelry worth in excess of $40 thousand. The safecracking sentence handed down by Judge Lawton McIntosh was 15 years in prison, suspended to 11 years active time, five years probation, and the requirement of restitution. Dills received a concurrent 10 years sentence for his plea to grand larceny.