More than five months after a 25-year-old man was arrested when he was found in a Redwood City couple’s home on a Sunday afternoon, he was sentenced to four years in state prison Thursday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Ian Brimelow pleaded no contest to residential burglary and also admitted to a prior felony strike conviction Feb. 11. On Thursday, a judge denied his defense attorney’s Romero motion, which requests the judge drop one of his client’s previous strike convictions from consideration in sentencing, according to prosecutors.
In custody on $50,000 bail, Brimelow received 317 days credit for time served and was ordered to have no contact with the victims, a couple living in a second-floor apartment at 630 Veterans Blvd., according to prosecutors.
It wasn’t clear how long Brimelow had been in the apartment when the couple returned home just before 3 p.m. Nov. 4 to find him drinking a beverage in their kitchen. They said they left their apartment the day before around 5:30 p.m. to visit family in Sunnyvale and returned the next day to find Brimelow in a ransacked apartment smelling strongly of marijuana, according to prosecutors.
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The couple called the police, who responded within minutes and asked Brimelow how he entered the apartment. He allegedly said he had been in the apartment for a while, and officers found a bedroom screen window had been removed and handprints were found on the apartment’s exterior, according to prosecutors.
Brimelow is also believed to have gone through all the cabinets and drawers and filled a backpack he found in the apartment with household items. One of the victims’ passports was never recovered, according to prosecutors.
With a history of trespassing, drugs and theft convictions in North Carolina, West Virginia and Florida, Brimelow is believed to be a transient, according to prosecutors.
His defense attorney Jason Cueva could not be immediately reached for comment.
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