A 55-year-old Coon Rapids Women has been given probation after pleading guilty to burglary and theft charges in two separate incidents. Janet Ann Hofbauer was sentenced on the guilty pleas to third-degree burglary, a class D felony, and third-degree theft, an aggravated misdemeanor, in Carroll County District Court on Thursday, April 26. For the burglary charge, a sentence not to exceed five years, fines of $750 and a 35 percent surcharge were all suspended and Hofbauer was ordered to serve three years of probation. On the theft charge, Hofbauer’s original sentence of up to two year’s incarceration, to run consecutively with the burglary charge, was also suspended and replaced with two years of probation. Hofbauer has been ordered to pay restitution of $1,000 and $1,280 to the victim’s in each incident. The charges were levied against Hofbauer after investigations into allegations that in June of 2016, she had entered the homes of her Coon Rapids’ neighbors and her ex-husband, stealing items from each. In January of this year, Hofbauer entered into a plea agreement that reduced one of the two burglary charges to theft and eliminated the felon in possession of a firearm charge.
