PROVO SEmD A Pleasant Grove man was sentenced to prison Thursday for stealing nearly half a million dollars from an 89-year-old man.

Thorne Rawlinson, 25, was sentenced to four terms of five years to life in prison and one term of one to 15 years in prison, with all sentences consecutive to each other. He was charged in four separate cases of burglary, forgery, tampering with a witness and possession of a controlled substance.

Prosecutor Jared Perkins said Rawlinson and Alexis Vanderhoeven broke into the woman's grandfather's home in Alpine and stole $469,000 in cash and gold coins.

"We have documentation to substantiate it," Perkins said.

Five of the victim's children spoke in court, detailing their father's rapidly declining health after the incident. It is not important for them to recover the money for themselves, they said, but it was money their father worked for decades to save.

The victim was a child of the Great Depression, they said, and worked his whole life in manual labor jobs, meticulously saving for his retirement. Instead, the money was stolen from him in his old age. He is now a prisoner in his own home, his son said, sleeping with a gun and using a security system.

"He's been terrorized," the man said.

The man's children asked Rawlinson repeatedly to return the money and asked for consecutive prison sentences so that Rawlinson cannot get out of prison and live off of the victim's nest egg.

Rawlinson's attorney, Aaron Dodd, said he has spoken at length with his client, who has said he does not have any of the man's money. He gave all of the money to Vanderhoeven and co-defendant Kip Gneiting, he claims, only keeping and spending $20,000 himself. He did not take any coins because they would be traceable, Dodd said.

"Mr. Rawlinson doesn't have the coins," he said.

Dodd also contested accusations that Rawlinson threatened Vanderhoeven and Gneiting. He said Rawlinson did not plead guilty to threatening them but to telling them to take the Fifth Amendment and not testify. Dodd said Rawlinson went to the home with Vanderhoeven, but did not know who he was stealing from.

"We would request the court look at all the facts," he said.

Perkins and Dodd agreed to concurrent sentences in Rawlinson's four cases. However, Judge David Mortensen said the rehabilitation of a defendant and protecting society are his chief concerns. Rawlinson has failed numerous times while on probation, he said.

"Given this history, I don't think you would fare very well on parole either," he said.

Mortensen said there are several victims involved and Rawlinson's history with the courts is dismal.

It does not appear that he will change his ways, Mortensen said.

"It's the determination of the court that these cases run consecutively," he said.