Credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
Two brothers stole hundreds of pack of cigarettes from Bristol Township businesses in September 2015.
Francis Edward Neisser Jr., 54, of Philadelphia pleaded guilty last week to burglary and conspiracy charges. In addition, his brother Daniel Neisser, 49, of Bristol, also pleaded guilty in the case, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
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Francis Neisser was sentenced to four to 10 years in prison. He was also sentenced to five consecutive years of probation and ordered to pay $3,320.82 in restitution.
His brother is set to be sentenced next month.
The brothers were arrested for stealing from Walgreens and Ruger’s Beer and Soda along New Falls Road as part of a scheme to resell the stolen cigarettes to support Francis Neisser’s drug habit. He had a dependency on heroin, crystal methamphetamine and crack cocaine.
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Francis Neisser has a history of burglary and theft cases from the 1980s. The criminal history played a role in his longer sentence and led to Judge Wallace Bateman denying a plea for leniency.
Daniel Neisser is expected to fare better than his brother due to having a criminal history of only DUI.
