MOORHEAD - A 27-year-old man who broke into a Moorhead animal hospital to spring his unlicensed dog instead of paying $103 in fees was sentenced Thursday to two years and three months in prison.
Anthony Theodore Wagoner also was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to felony possession of a pistol.
The sentences will run concurrently, and Wagoner will have to serve at least two-thirds of the time in prison.
The terms also will run concurrently with the sentence Wagoner receives todayin Polk County on a second-degree assault charge, Assistant Clay County Attorney Jenny Samarzja said.
In the Moorhead case, Wagoner pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary for breaking into the Fargo-Moorhead Animal Hospital on Oct. 11. Hospital staff told police that Wagoner had called the day before asking about the cost of freeing his dog, which had been impounded as an unlicensed stray, court documents state.
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Wagoner admitted to the break-in after police found his Labrador retriever, Ace, at his mother's home in Crookston, police claim.
He was ordered to pay $233 in restitution to the hospital for a broken window.
