WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Wichita man who stole from people while they were attending family members’ funerals is going to prison.
According to prosecutors, Gary Garrett, 50, would scour through online obituary postings to find victims and plan how to burglarize their property. Victims lost financial documents, guns and electronics in the residential burglaries.
In August, a jury found Garrett guilty of 27 counts. The district attorney’s office says the judge dismissed two theft counts because they were duplicitous.
On Thursday, District Judge Bruce Brown sentenced Garrett to 16.5 years of incarceration: 10 years in prison and 6.5 years in the Sedgwick County Jail.
