Deferred sentence in Heron burglary

Tyler Robinson was sentenced Tuedsay in 20th District Judicial Court on charges stemming from the burglary of a Heron residence in 2015.

Robinson received two five-year deferred sentences with the Montana Department of Corrections, one for a felony burglary charge and one for a felony tampering with physical evidence charge. Judge James Manley ordered the sentences to run consecutively.

“He is being given a second chance to do right by these people,” Manley said in court Tuesday. The judgment also includes $43495.99 in restitution.

The charges stemmed from an October 11, 2015, burglary in which victim Terrie Sweeney testified on Tuesday that 75 guns and jewelry and knives made by her late father were taken.

Sweeney said Tuesday that Robinson was a friend of the family and that she and her family “felt very violated.”

Robinson, in addressing the court on Tuesday, said “there is no excuse. I did what I did. I’m taking punishment as a way to accept fully that what I did was wrong.”