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SALT LAKE CITY — The last of three individuals charged in connection with a large Salt Lake County burglary ring pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to prison.
Two men and one woman were arrested following a series of burglaries in one night in January 2022 at the Station Condominium Complex, near 2250 East and 4700 South in Holladay.
Joshua William Corbin, 38, of West Jordan, who police said was the main suspect in a large burglary ring, pleaded guilty on Aug. 29 and was sentenced immediately after entering his plea. He will serve between zero and five years in prison after admitting to theft and burglary.
In the early morning of Jan. 28, 2022, Corbin and Louis Palmer Barnard, 31, of Holladay, broke into storage sheds at the complex, according to charging documents. Corbin's girlfriend drove a truck and waited outside the complex and acted as a lookout, the documents said.
A police booking affidavit said eight victims reported stolen property from the complex, and the total loss in the burglaries was over $200,000.
On Feb. 9, 2022, Unified police held a press conference to show hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen property that had been recovered by detectives in storage units and at Corbin's residence — including items from that burglary and others.
Unified Deputy Police Chief Justin Hoyal called it "probably one of the largest seizures I've seen in my career of stolen property."
Corbin pleaded guilty to three counts of theft and three counts of burglary, third-degree felonies. Ten similar charges, all third-degree felonies, and one class B misdemeanor were dismissed.
He also settled two other cases at the same time, pleading guilty to one count of burglary, a third-degree felony, in relation to actions in February 2020, and to theft of a vehicle and possession of a controlled substance, both third-degree felonies, in relation to actions on Jan. 13, 2022.
Corbin was given additional sentences of between zero and five years in those cases, which will be served at the same time as the others.
Barnard was charged with the same crimes as Corbin in the case, and one additional charge for receiving stolen property. But his plea deal, which addressed three different theft cases, dismissed more charges.
On Feb. 2, Barnard pleaded guilty to one count of theft, a second-degree felony, in addition to two counts of burglary and retail theft, both third-degree felonies. He admitted to taking merchandise from Walmart in December 2021 and taking property from storage units at a condominium complex on Jan. 17 and Jan. 28, 2022.
He was sentenced to concurrent sentences of between one and 15 years and zero to five years in prison, but those sentences were suspended in favor of 36 months of probation through drug court.
Corbin's girlfriend, Charlie Dawn Hansen, 28, pleaded guilty on Sept. 8, 2022, and is now one year into her 36 months of probation through drug court.
She pleaded guilty to three counts of theft, a second-degree felony, and two counts of burglary, a third-degree felony. She faced 17 charges in the case related to the Jan. 28, 2022, theft; the other 12 charges were dismissed.
Hansen was sentenced to between one and 15 years in prison for the theft charges and between zero and five years for the burglary charges, but those sentences were suspended in favor of probation.
She also pleaded guilty at the same time to retail theft, a class A misdemeanor, and admitted to placing stickers on barcodes at Walmart to make the price of items she purchased lower.
