Sanders gets 200 days

The defendant, Dickey Sanders Jr., entered guilty pleas to charges of aggravated burglary, theft, wiretapping, filing a false report and vandalism. He was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to serve 200 days with the balance of his sentence to be spent on probation. He is not to bother the family he stalked again or he will face serving his entire prison sentence.

The sentence comes after police investigated the unusual case in which Sanders broke into to the McMinnville family?s home, and at one point, spliced into their phone lines so he could not only listen in on calls, but also make calls from their line. Police discovered Sanders had crawled under the house and tapped into their phone lines.

The victims told police they could hear Sanders making noises on their line during phone conversations. Police also discovered Sanders made bogus calls to 911 from the pirated phone line.

The tapping of the phone lines was one of many crimes Sanders committed. Police say he not only broke into a crawl space underneath the home to plant the phone tap, but also entered the home without permission. In one case he left a handwritten love note on the woman?s nightstand, while on another occasion he allegedly called the woman?s husband at work from inside the Mullican Street home.

Sanders told police he hid in the closet when the husband returned home. Sanders has reportedly claimed he was invited into the house. However, the victims say he has been stalking them and has never been let into their family home.

As for the stalking, Sanders reportedly claimed he was doing the deeds to the family because he had, at one time, been the target of a stalker himself and that returning the favor was empowering.