Washington, D.C. – A 50-year-old District of Columbia man, Delvin Anderson, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing a series of burglaries, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today.

Anderson, formerly of the 5100 block of Bass Place, SE, Washington, D.C., was sentenced on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia before the Honorable Robert Rigsby, who also fined the defendant $2,000 and ordered him to pay restitution. Anderson pled guilty in April 2008 to Second Degree Burglary and Attempted Second Degree Burglary in connection with two separate burglaries he committed in Northwest Washington, D.C. in October 2007. As part of his guilty plea, Anderson also acknowledged to having committed numerous other burglaries prior to his arrest in this matter.

According to the factual proffer agreed to by the defendant at the time he pled guilty, on October 17, 2007, members of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) responded to the 900 block of O Street, NW, Washington, D.C. to investigate a report of “burglary in progress.” When the officers arrived, they found the defendant in front of the location talking to another person. The officers spoke to the other person and were told that she had observed the defendant remove items from a second floor window of the location through the use of a ladder. After taking the defendant into custody, the police located a brown paper bag in a nearby van that contained a Nintendo Wii gaming system. The owner of the residence later advised the police that he owned the Nintendo Wii gaming system, and that he had not given the defendant permission to enter his residence and take it.

When the police searched the van further, they found other personal property, including a computer, IPOD with headphones, Nikon Camera, and Debit Card, not belonging to the defendant. A second burglary victim residing in the 1400 block of 10th Street, NW, later reported the items as having been stolen from his residence and confirmed that he did not give the defendant permission to remove the items from his residence.

 In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Taylor praised the efforts of MPD Detectives David Swinson and Brian Wise, U.S. Attorney Office support personnel Kalisha Clark-Johnson, James Brennan, and La June Thames, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Martin, who investigated and prosecuted the case.