Timothy Livengood

A Sarver man was sentenced to state prison Thursday, after being charged in relation to a break in of a Buffalo Township business where he was later found stuck on the roof.

Timothy L. Livengood, 28, was sentenced to 14 to 28 months in a state correctional facility by Butler County Judge William Shaffer. He has served 127 days in jail pending sentencing.

His parole will be followed by 2 years of state probation. Livengood was also ordered to pay court costs and $2,368 in restitution.

He previously pleaded guilty to felony attempted trespass March 12. The plea Livengood entered was open, with sentencing up to the judge, with the minimum sentence calling for 6 to 16 months, while the maximum called for 3½ to 7 years in state prison.

His attorney, Assistant Public Defender Maura Palumbi, asked for a county sentence. Shaffer said Livengood’s 14 adult arrests, mostly for burglary, and the fact that he was on probation at the time this incident occurred, is why he imposed a state prison sentence.

Buffalo Township police initially charged him with two felony counts each of attempted burglary and attempted trespass, misdemeanor possessing an instrument of crime, two counts of criminal mischief, and loitering and prowling at night, after the incident in the 700 block of Ekastown Road Dec. 20.

The remaining charges were dismissed as part of the plea.

Police said Livengood, armed with a pry bar, climbed up to the top of the building that houses the Colonial Clinic, Colonial Pharmacy and K & R Pizza, attempting to “gain access to the pharmacy to take drugs, according to court documents.

Shortly after his failed break-in, Livengood soon found he was unable to get down off the roof. When daylight broke, he hid behind an air conditioning unit “in hopes he would not be seen,” police said.

The building’s owner arriving for work Dec. 21 noticed the flue stack had been removed and shingles were ripped up on the roof. She called a repairman, who subsequently discovered Livengood lying — and stuck — on the roof. Two officers helped rescue him before arresting him.

Later that day, it was discovered that someone had tried to break into K & R Pizza at the same building. Police said it appeared a pry bar was used in a failed attempt to force open the back door.

Livengood spoke during the proceeding, saying he wanted “to get back on my feet, and I am just anxious to do so.”