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Hutcherson given year in jail
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A man who stole from his girlfriend’s mother so he could feed his heroin addiction will serve a year behind bars.The man, Joey Vincent Hutcherson, 24, entered guilty pleas before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges of aggravated burglary, theft and possession of drugs. He was directed to serve 364 days of a four-year sentence on the sum of his charges.His plea comes less than a month after his girlfriend, Regina Lynn Farless, 30, entered guilty pleas herself for the burglary of her mother’s home. She is serving a 290-day sentence and will be on the drug court program once her jail time is done.According to arrest warrants against the two, they went to the home of Farless’ mother in the Centertown area after Farless told her boyfriend there was a safe there with money and prescription drugs.“They agreed to steal the safe,” said sheriff’s investigator Kevin Murphy.