{"id":447483,"date":"2026-02-04T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447483\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:00:08","slug":"man-sentenced-after-admitting-to-breaking-into-hillcrest-elementary-school-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447483\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced after admitting to breaking into Hillcrest Elementary School | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOGAN \u2014 A 36-year-old man with a lengthy criminal history has been sentenced for breaking into a school building last summer. <a title=\"Man arrested after allegedly breaking into Hillcrest Elementary School\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cachevalleydaily.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/05a051e3-88d7-4195-98ce-5044d7687d48\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Lyndon Thurston was originally arrested by law enforcement after barricading himself inside an office.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Thurston appeared January 20 in Logan\u2019s 1st District Court. He accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to burglary, property damage, and possession or use of a controlled substance, all third-degree felonies. As part of the resolution, four remaining charges were dismissed.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On June 12, 2025, Logan City Police officers responded to a report of an unauthorized individual who had entered Hillcrest Elementary School, 1475 E. 900 North, around 8:35 a.m. Additional units from the USU Police Department and Cache County Sheriff\u2019s Office were also dispatched to the break-in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As law enforcement arrived on scene, they set up a perimeter and attempted to make contact with the individual, later identified as Thurston. He attempted to avoid contact by accessing the school roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers were eventually able to engage Thurston and safely take him into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school was not in session and no specific events were occurring at the time of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the January 20 court hearing, Judge Angela Fonnesbeck sentenced Thurston to a term of 240 days, giving credit for time already served.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Thurston has multiple convictions for burglary, theft and other charges in Salt Lake, Farmington and Manti. He is currently in prison, serving a term of zero to five years, for an unrelated case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOGAN \u2014 A 36-year-old man with a lengthy criminal history has been sentenced for breaking into a school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91195,4,450,210251,210252,451,210254,210253,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-447483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-1st-district-court","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-christopher-lyndon-thurston","12":"tag-christopher-thurston","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-judge-angela-fonnesbeck","15":"tag-logan-city-police-department","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}