A Peachtree City man who was

caught by police in the middle of burglarizing a bar pled guilty Monday

afternoon to five felony counts of burglary as part of a plea bargain

agreement.

George Edwin Keithahn, 33,

was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Superior Court Judge Chritopher

C. Edwards after admitting to burglarizing the Hangar 74 bar, where he

was caught Aug. 29 by a police officer who spotted him inside the business

in the early morning hours before it opened.

Keithahn also admitted to burglarizing

Augustino's Ristorante, a doctor's office on McWilliams Drive, a real

estate office on Ga. Highway 74 North and a business on Commerce Drive

in Fayetteville during a two-month time frame prior to his arrest.

Keithahn was spotted inside

Hangar 74 around 5:30 a.m., well before the bar opened for business, police

said. The arrest came during a special surveillance of businesses in the

area as officers tried to stem multiple burglaries that had been occurring

in the area.

At the time of the arrest,

Peachtree City Police Chief James Murray said Keithahn would target businesses

which either didn't have burglar alarms or didn't set their burglar alarm

system.

In exchange for the guilty

pleas on the five burglary counts, prosecutors agreed to drop eight other

felony counts of burglary and a charge for possession of tools used for

the commission of a crime. Keithahn also pled guilty to possession of

marijuana (less than one ounce), a misdemeanor.

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