A Jackson Township man on Thursday received a jail sentence of 9 to 18 months for stealing roughly $15,000 in jewelry from a Zelienople home.

Robert C. Rinehart III, 29, also received a jail term of 1 to 2 months for a count of theft by unlawful taking, but it is concurrent to the 9 to 18 months given for a count of burglary.

Butler County Judge Timothy McCune also sentenced Rinehart to 24 months of probation for both counts.

Rinehart was convicted of stealing the jewelry from the home of Michael and Jaime Lippert on Jan. 18.

According to authorities, Rinehart sold some of the jewelry to buy heroin.

Defense attorney Jerry Cassady said his client helped authorities recover as much of the stolen items he could.

The sentence was part of a plea agreement with the county district attorney.

The charges of criminal trespass and receiving stolen property were dropped.

Here are other defendants who McCune sentenced on Thursday:

Attack caseA Jackson Township man got a year of probation for attacking a woman last year.According to authorities, Mark Holzer, 51, repeatedly struck Michele Kaiser, who was 52 at the time, on May 9, 2012.Holzer originally was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment. The charges were reduced to simple assault as part of a plea agreement.

Assault caseA Lyndora man was sentenced to one year of probation for assaulting another man.Glenn Schreffler, 49, was charged after attacking Patrick McCormick of Franklin Township, who was 59 at the time, on Nov. 2, 2012, on Bessemer Avenue in Butler Township.Township police report finding McCormick lying on the road bleeding from the head.Schreffler was originally charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and harassment. The charges were reduced to simple assault as part of a plea agreement.

DUI driver jailedA Butler woman was sentenced to 2 years of probation for driving drunk with a child in a pickup that later wrecked into two other vehicles.Shauna Cress, 27, also received a 6-month probation sentence for a simple assault case, but that will be concurrent to the first sentence.According to township police, Cress’ truck on Dec. 10, 2012, hit the driver’s door of an SUV on New Castle Road at the South Duffy Road intersection.The driver of the SUV, Deborah Ferguson, was injured.Following the initial crash, the pickup sideswiped another SUV. The driver of the third vehicle was not injured.Cress’ blood-alcohol level was 0.171 percent. In Pennsylvania, it’s illegal to operate a vehicle with a level of 0.08 percent or higher.During an investigation, police learned Cress dropped off an 11-year-old boy before she was pulled over.Cress originally faced 13 charges. They were reduced as part of a plea agreement to three: driving under the influence-highest rate of alcohol, accidents involving death or injury and accidents involving death or injury without proper licensing.