A three-year-old shoplifting charge has landed a Carbon County man with a string of arrests in Carbon and Schuylkill counties in state prison.

Schuylkill County Judge John J. Domalakes on Tuesday revoked the probation of Brian R. Kehl, 31, of Summit Hill and sentenced him to six months to two years in state prison for violating the terms of his probation.He will serve the sentence at the same time as he does his punishment for two other cases in Carbon County. The cases involve a Feb. 27 incident in Lansford where Kehl and another man entered a home and held a teenage boy until the boy's grandfather confronted them with a loaded gun, and the other an assault charge stemming from a Jan. 2, 2010, incident in Nesquehoning.Rush Township had charged Kehl on Feb. 12, 2011, with stealing $26.16 worth of stuff from the Walmart store in Hometown. Kehl on Aug. 17, 2011, pleaded guilty to retail theft, and Domalakes placed him on probation for 18 months.Kehl was again placed on 18 months of probation on Jan. 21, 2013. At the same time, he was also in trouble in Carbon County.In May, Carbon County Judge Steven Serfass revoked Kehl's probation there on the charge of simple assault from the 2010 incident after he was charged with several new criminal offenses in the Lansford case. Serfass resentenced him to serve nine to 18 months in the county prison.In the Lansford case, Kehl, along with Joseph Becker, 31, of Coaldale entered a West Water Street home, saying they were looking for a man named Cody who owed them money. Kehl restrained a teenage boy who lives in the house, while Becker searched the house. The boy escaped when Kehl joined in the search, and ran to his grandfather's house next door. The grandfather, David Knittle, confronted Becker and Kehl with a 9 mm handgun.The men left, and Becker was caught a short time later. Police nabbed Kehl on March 13 in Kline Township.