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Schuylkill County Court

A woman charged by West Penn Township police with burglary, theft and related charges will spend years in prison.

Kendra L. Crostley, 25, was charged by West Penn Township police with burglary, criminal trespass and eight counts each of theft and receiving stolen property on Aug. 28, 2016.She pleaded guilty on Aug. 17 to burglary, criminal trespass and to all eight theft counts.The other charges were dropped.Schuylkill County Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin sentenced her to 16 to 32 months in prison on the burglary charge; 12 months on the trespass charge; and to a total of one to two years on the theft charges.According to court documents, Crostley, along with another woman and two masked men, broke into a house through a window at 1391 Penn Drive in West Penn Township shortly after midnight Aug. 28, 2016.They stole several firearms, including two loaded handguns, a .357-caliber Ruger SA revolver, and a .32-caliber H&R Rimfire revolver.In another case, Judge James P. Goodman revoked the parole of a Summit Hill woman and sent her to state prison.Heather L. Loar, 30, was ordered to serve out the remainder of a prison sentence imposed on Sept. 23, 2015. That means she was given no credit for the 140 days she spent on parole, bringing her maximum sentence to March 12, 2021.Goodman also ordered Loar to undergo an intensive drug and alcohol treatment program while in state prison.Loar was charged by Tamaqua police with endangering welfare of children, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, careless driving, and recklessly endangering another person. She pleaded guilty to endangering another person on June 11, 2014.She pleaded guilty on Sept. 23, 2015, to the DUI charge. The other charges were dropped.Goodman at the time sentenced her to 12 to 24 months.In another case, Goodman sentencedAmy M. Snee, 34, of New Ringgold, to 30 days of house arrest with electronic monitoring. He also ordered her to pay court costs and fees, and fined her $200.She's allowed to start her sentence on Sept. 18.Snee pleaded guilty to driving under suspension.Tamaqua police had charged Snee with driving with a suspended license on March 27, 2016.