A Forestville man who committed a string of holiday break-ins last year has been sentenced to seven years in prison, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt announced.

Gary Lang, 56, was also ordered by a Chautauqua County District Court judge to receive five years of supervision after he is released. He pleaded guilty July 12 to second-degree attempted burglary, a Class D violent felony.

Lang was arrested after an investigation by the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Criminal Investigation Division into multiple thefts from vehicles, buildings and homes in Fredonia and the towns of Portland and Pomfret during the week between Christmas 2023 and New Year’s Day.

Lang was previously indicted on felony theft charges in 2021 in connection with a series of thefts from vehicles and homes in the towns of Ripley, Pomfret and Gerry.