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Man enters guilty pleas for theft of phone, generator, batteries

A Nazareth man entered guilty pleas in five pending cases last week in Carbon County court and was immediately sentenced to a county prison term.

Anthony Robert McGraw, 28, pleaded to two counts of theft and one count each of false identification to law enforcement, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass. The trespass charge is a felony, while the others are misdemeanors.McGraw was charged by Palmerton police in three of the cases. He admitted taking a cellphone froma woman on Aug. 6, 2015, in the borough.He also admitted his part in two entries to Shea's Warehouse in the borough in which an air compressor and generator were removed in one incident and a generator in the second entry. The incidents occurred on Aug. 18 and 29, 2015. He also admitted stealing two batteries from a water truck at the Blue Mountain Ski Area in Lower Towamensing Township on Aug. 23, 2015, in charges filed by state police at Lehighton.Jim Thorpe police charged him with on Oct. 6, 2015, with an incident in the area of 341 Center Ave., where he was allegedly making threats to another person. When police confronted him he gave them a false name.In the Palmerton break-ins and the battery theft McGraw had a accomplice, Garry Marshall Hoffner, 37, of Lehighton. He pleaded to his part in the crimes before President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II in April. He is awaiting sentencing.McGraw claimed he stole to feed a heroin habit.On the trespass count Serfass sentenced him to serve two to one day less 24 months in prison with credit for two days already served.On the theft charge he was sentenced to serve one to one day less 24 months in prison concurrent with the trespass charge.On the other counts he was placed on probation for two years.He was also ordered to render 250 hours of community service, pay court costs of about $1,000, supply a DNA sample, and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole and probation.He will begin the jail term at 9 a.m. Thursday.