A man who forced his way into another man's home last summer and was stabbed by the homeowner before fleeing pleaded guilty Monday in Garland County Circuit Court.
Nicholas William Schrader, 37, who has remained in custody since his arrest Aug. 14, 2020, pleaded guilty to a felony count of residential burglary, amended from an original charge of aggravated residential burglary, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with all of it suspended, fined $500 and ordered to pay $195 in court costs.
Schrader, who lists no prior criminal history, was barred from any future contact with the victim. An additional felony count of theft of property was withdrawn. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges on Nov. 2, 2020, and was initially set for trial on June 14, but the case was continued and reset for a disposition hearing Monday.
His alleged accomplice, Robert Allen Collins, 38, of Malvern was arrested on Aug. 19 on the same charges and has remained in custody since then in lieu of a $100,000 bond. He is set for a disposition hearing on Aug. 24. Collins was previously convicted in 2018 on felony charges of possession of meth and possession of drug paraphernalia and sentenced to three years' supervised probation.
According to the probable cause affidavit, on July 21, 2020, a local man called to report two men had broken into his home on Afton Street and he believed he had stabbed one of them before they fled.
The victim stated he heard his dogs barking and when he went to check...
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