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First posted May 2004

A Midland man with a previous conviction for delivering marijuana in 1997, has entered another plea in connection to a string of home break-ins last year 2003.
Lenard Dale Yoder, 24, was charged with first-degree home invasion, two counts of second-degree home invasion and larceny in a building, as well as being given a habitual offender status for a previous conviction. The charges are in two separate cases.
Yoder entered a plea agreement in August that would have left him with a 60-month maximum term in prison. That plea was withdrawn because there was a miscalculation of state sentencing guidelines. The requirement is 72 to 150 months in prison.
The felony charges carry maximum penalties of 30 years in prison for first-degree home invasion and 15 to 22 1/2 years for both second-degree home invasion and larceny in a building because of the habitual offender status.

The most recent plea, made Thursday before Midland County Circuit Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington, is for a 72-month maximum prison sentence as mandated by state guidelines.
Yoder was scheduled for a three-day jury trial to begin Monday.
He was arrested in April 2003 after a family at a Woodview Pass home heard noises in the early morning hours. A pickup truck was seen parked in front of the home and a flashlight shone in the bedroom of a 14-year-old girl. Following a foot chase, a man was caught and was found to be in possession of girls' panties taken from the home.
Evidence found by police linked him to another home that had been broken into on Trailwood Circle.
Police said at the time of the break-ins that Yoder was a volunteer helper with a Midland High School girls' soccer team, and was aware team members would be out of town during spring break.