Patrick Michael Wagner, 39, Jamestown, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison, all suspended but the one day he has already served in the Ward County Jail, and three years of supervised probation for a Jan. 5, 2020 burglary at the Grain Hopper Bar in Minot.

Wagner received concurrent sentences for Class B felony accomplice to theft and Class B felony accomplice to criminal mischief charges. The state dismissed a Class C felony accomplice to burglary charge under the terms of a plea deal.

The terms of a plea deal call for Wagner to cooperate with authorities. Ward County Assistant State’s Attorney Christopher Nelson also wanted Wagner to tell police where guns and cash from another burglary had been buried but Wagner told Nelson he can’t do that because he didn’t have any weapons and nothing had been buried.

Nelson said this information came from a jail house conversation that Wagner had. Judge Stacy Louser said she would not require Wagner to show officers where items are buried because that requirement was not part of the sentence of his co-defendant, Britnee Ann McKinney, 21, of Crosby. McKinney was sentenced on May 28 to 360 days in jail, all suspended but the one day she had already served in jail, and three years of supervised probation for Class B felony accomplice to theft and Class B felony accomplice to criminal mischief. McKinney also had to agree to cooperate with authorities and testify against her co-defendants.

Levi Michael Schoneck, 24, is also charged with Class B felony accomplice to theft, Class B felony accomplice to criminal mischief, and Class C felony accomplice to burglary in the case.

Louser ordered Wagner to pay restitution, jointly with his co-defendants, and court costs.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, five gaming machines were broken into at the Grain Hopper Bar on Jan. 5 and a total of $9,945 was stolen from the machines. The burglars also stole numerous packages of cigarettes valued at $596.31. Access was gained through an unlocked rear door after the burglars had first cut power to the building and disabled the security system.

Wagner was booked into the jail on Jan. 6, 2020, after he had changed his plea in another case and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with a requirement that he serve five years, for setting off a pipe bomb on April 7, 2019, in rural Minot. His cellmate reported that Wagner had claimed responsibility for the burglary and had communicated from the jail with Schoneck and McKinney. The confidential informant also told police that Wagner, Schoneck, and McKinney had burned the clothing they wore during the burglary and Wagner had buried money from the burglary along with drugs and a firearm and intended to dig it up when he got out of prison on the other charge.