Family heirlooms.

The coins from a 7-year-old’s piggy bank.

A commemorative gold stamp.

No possession was immune during two burglaries tied to a Clearfield Township man. But an insult to injury occurred for victim and former police officer John Drescher when one of the guns stolen from his home was used in three unrelated crimes.

“Give him the maximum,” Drescher urged Butler County Judge William Shaffer on Thursday. “He gave my wife and I the maximum in discomfort.”

The judge sentenced defendant Trevor Raible, 28, to 3 to 8 years in state prison.

According to court records, Raible was part of a burglary crew responsible for up to eight daylight break-ins in Armstrong and Butler counties, including Drescher’s home in Donegal Township.

Raible was the last of the group to be sentenced for this case: Tyson C. Anderson, 26, of Kittanning was sentenced to up to four years; Tyson J. Bargerstock, 28, of Worthington was sentenced to up to seven years; and Meghan E. Snyder, 25, of Butler was sentenced to serve 9 to 23 months in prison followed by 10 years of probation, according to court records.

The defendants face various amounts of additional prison time depending on what other crimes they took part in.

The group broke into Drescher’s Rabbit Road house while he and his wife, Joyce, were enjoying a New Year’s Eve dinner to end 2013.

They ransacked his house, took his belongings and scared the family cat, Nugget, so badly it would not come out of the rafters for days.

Among the property taken, documents said, were three guns — a Marlin .30-30 rifle, a Springfield 20-gauge shotgun and a Cobray Mac-10 machine pistol. The Cobray was used in two robberies in Butler County and in another crime in Mount Oliver.

Drescher was a military police officer in the U.S. Army and then a municipal police officer in Kansas before returning to Butler County, where both he and his wife were born and raised. Now he is mainly retired but occasionally teaches security training.

“This just destroyed my piece of mind,” said Drescher, who only last week learned the gun was recovered “and can’t be used in any more crimes.”

Raible and his co-defendants were ordered to pay about $17,000 in restitution to Drescher.

“That won’t cover the alarm system we bought or the $50 fee to maintain it,” Drescher.

While Raible was part of a group that ransacked Drescher’s home, he is the lone defendant in another case — the $18,000 theft of cash and jewelry from Deborah Peitz.

According to court records, Peitz’s daughter was dating Raible, who was released from prison only months earlier for attempted robbery, and living under her roof in December 2012.

Raible apparently trashed the city home and left the door open to make the theft look like a burglary.

Police later concluded that for three months Raible sold numerous silver and gold pieces of jewelry to three gold exchanges in Butler County, making $2,298 from the sales.

“The next time I saw my jewelry it was all melted down already,” Peitz said, noting the loss came just as her husband was learning he had cancer. Bernard W. Peitz Jr., 57, died three months after his diagnosis.

In court, Raible apologized to his victims.

“There’s nothing I can do to give back your sense of security.” Raible said he regrets his actions “and not just because I got in trouble.”

But Peitz said the defendant has tried to call her since his arrest, and he didn’t seem apologetic or regretful.

“He told me that I didn’t need those things (he stole),” she said.