Va Tv Thief Is Going to Prison Theft Was Gift for Wife, He Says, and 'the Military Owed Me a Lot'

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A 44-year-old slaughterhouse worker who stole a flat-screen television from a veterans hospital said he took it for love and revenge -- and now he'll spend a year in prison for it.

Brushing aside calls from the prosecution and defense for probation, Chief U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa gave Jeffry Polak of Milwaukee a year and a day in federal prison, citing his many run- ins with the law that put him in the highest category of criminal history under federal sentencing guidelines.

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Va Tv Thief Is Going to Prison Theft Was Gift for Wife, He Says, and 'the Military Owed Me a Lot'

Polak has been arrested for several crimes, some involving alcohol, though he was not convicted of all of them, Randa said. While his offenses were not l...

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