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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA western Indiana man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison after pleading guilty in a home invasion that injured a couple in their 90s.
Gary Sears Jr. was sentenced Tuesday in Parke County on burglary, criminal confinement and habitual offender charges.
Investigators say the Terre Haute man and a co-defendant broke into the home of a 90-year-old man and his 91-year-old wife in November 2016, attacked them, tied them up and fled with several items after ransacking their home.
The (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star reports the elderly victims freed themselves and summoned help. The man suffered a skull fracture and his wife was treated at a local hospital.
Twenty-nine-year-old Katrina Cottrell of Terre Haute faces a Jan. 23 trial on theft, burglary and other charges in the attack.
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