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Man pleads guilty in teen, baseball bat incident
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Thomas Garza of Chandler pleaded guilty last week to burglary, assault, trespassing and other charges stemming from his Jan. 15 arrest in Mesa, court records say.
Mesa boy foils burglar with bat
Police arrested Garza after he entered the home of Michael Six, 14, who held Garza off with an aluminum baseball bat while on the phone with a 911 operator, records say.
Garza, 31, pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary with one prior felony conviction and agreed to an aggravated term of 10.5 years; aggravated assault and agreed to an aggravated term of 10.5 years; three misdemeanors for criminal trespass in the first degree, sentenced to time served; and one count of misconduct involving weapons from a 2007 incident and agreed to an aggravated term of six years to run concurrent with the others.
Sentencing is set for Sept. 17.
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