That charge could bring a prison term of nine months to three years and fines of up to $10,000, followed by up to five years of parole. As part of the plea, McCubbins agreed to pay $5,603 in restitution and to have no contact with the victim.
McCubbins is currently in the Montgomery County Jail. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 15, court documents said.
Jerry Knight Sr., 45, was sentenced by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Steven Dankof on Wednesday to five to seven and a half years in prison, with credit for 66 days spent in jail, followed by two to five years of parole.
Knight was also ordered to pay $5,603 in restitution to the victim.
The prison term will be served concurrently with an 18-month sentence that Knight received from the same judge in a separate case where Knight pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving stolen property.
The third man charged in the break in, 50-year-old Steven Schroyer, was indicted on aggravated burglary, safecracking, complicity to commit grand theft and having weapons while under disability charges. He has a motion to suppress hearing scheduled for Jan. 31, and was not in the Montgomery County Jail at the time of writing.
On Sept. 23, 2024, the three men reportedly broke into a house in the 5500 block of Brantford Road. The homeowner said that multiple guns were stolen, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
The next day, deputies were called back to the house for a reported shooting, where the homeowner said he confronted two suspects and shot at one of them.
Deputies found Shroyer with a gunshot wound to his arm, and later found McCubbins at the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall at 1161 Bartley Road, according to Vandalia Municipal Court records. Both were arrested along with Knight.
In an interview, Schroyer admitted to going to the house with Knight and McCubbins to take scrap metal, with McCubbins acting as the lookout, according to an affidavit.
“Knight admitted to breaking into the residence multiple times over the past couple days and taking multiple items from inside,” the affidavit said. “After a search warrant was conducted at Knight’s house, several firearms had been located and he admitted the firearms were taken from the house on Brantford Road.”
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