A 24-year-old man who has been in and out of Nevada and California prisons for the last five years was ordered to begin pay restitution and advised to give up burglary as a living.
District Judge Dave Gamble ordered Anthony Conti to pay nearly $10,000 at $50 a month for six months, then $100 a month beginning in October.
Conti appeared before Gamble on Tuesday on a bench warrant from 2006 for failure to appear. His lawyer, Tod Young, said Conti had been incarcerated.
He and a codefendant were sentenced in 2005 for breaking into a Lake Tahoe vacation home and stealing a classic Mercedes worth $70,000, slot machine and weapons collection.
He and the codefendant were ordered to pay more than $9,600 for restitution and repairs. The car was recovered, but damaged.
Conti told Gamble after he was released from prison, he was out for a month and committed another burglary in California. He served that sentence and was to go back to prison in Nevada for a violating his parole with the new burglary, but he absconded for one month.
He was arrested, returned to Nevada and finished his sentence before he was returned to Douglas County.
"You are 24 years old, you've been in and out of prison for five years, are you about done?" Gamble asked.
"I'm finished," Conti said.
He told the judge he had a job in Cameron Park, Calif., painting or delivering drywall.
Gamble cautioned him to be careful about the company he keeps.
"The most important thing for you is that you probably ought to give up on burglarizing," Gamble said. "You're not good at it."
