A Clarendon man who broke into the Sheffield Gaming Center has been sentenced to prison time.

Jeremy L. Anderson, 40, of Clarendon was sentenced Friday by Judge Gregory Hammond to serve 4 to 8 months in prison, to pay $3,000 restitution to Sheffield Gaming and to have no other contact with Sheffield Gaming to satisfy a guilty plea to a charge of criminal mischief as well as 12 to 24 months in prison to run consecutively to satisfy a charge of criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass, along with $250 in restitution.

The incidents allegedly occurred on Dec. 19 and Jan. 4.

State Troopers were dispatched to the center on Dec. 19 and met with the owner, who explained that the game room contains 10 machines similar to slot machines. The owner reported that three machines had been damaged. Staff told police Anderson had gambled at the facility the night before between 11 p.m. and midnight, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

The affidavit states that information gathered from the scene including video footage shows Anderson “visibly and audibly upset that he had lost his money to the machines” when he left just after midnight. Troopers allege he returned with different boots, a different coat, gloves and mask but “the same pants that had either a pocket or hole in the same location on his thigh.”

According to the affidavit, he allegedly entered the center with bolt cutters and a small pry bar.

“Anderson,” the affidavit states, “approached the same machine he had lost his money to and began to try to cut the lock off of the money box portion of the machine.”

Police say that effort failed and allege that Anderson “ditched the bolt cutters and began to use the pry bar to pull the machine apart.”

The affidavit states that the front of the machine was destroyed and alleges Anderson tried to break into two more machines and an ATM before leaving at 4 a.m.