Two brothers have been sentenced for their involvement in separate instances of car burglaries that occurred on campus in late January, said Lana Wyant from the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office.

Jack Brown, 20, pleaded no contest to a campus car burglary on Feb. 7, five days after his 18-year-old brother, William Clouse, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of possession of burglary tools in a separate on-campus incident.

Acelia Soto, 18, who was arrested with Brown on Jan. 25 after a string of campus car burglaries, was released after no charges were filed against her.

Clouse was arrested on Jan. 29 for car burglary, said University Police Sgt. Kelly Clark in an e-mail. The circumstances of the two arrests were almost identical. It was even the same officer, Jeff Solomon, who made the arrest.

Clouse and Brown were both charged with the same crimes: two felony counts of second degree burglary of a vehicle, one felony count of receiving stolen property and one misdemeanor for possession of burglary tools, Wyant said.

When Clouse was taken to jail, police learned he was Brown’s brother, Clark said.

Clouse was sentenced to 90 days in Sacramento County Jail, where he is currently serving time, Wyant said. He was also sentenced to three years of informal probation.

Brown’s sentence was negotiated to 120 days in county jail, but the probation office must agree with the sentence before it becomes official. The probation office will decide if the sentence is appropriate after reviewing the case and Brown’s priors, Wyant said.

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