FARMINGTON — A Wilton man who pleaded guilty to theft and forgery charges was sentenced to four years in prison Friday.

Samuel Thibault, 27, also pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to burglary, theft and passing a roadblock, as well as misdemeanor charges of possession of an illegal drug and violating conditions of his release.

Thibault’s lawyer, Kevin Joyce, said his client suffered from a “raging addiction problem” and asked Justice Michaela Murphy for help getting Thibault into a substance abuse program in prison.

After Thibault waived his rights to a trial, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Robinson said the felony theft and forgery charges involved an October 2008 incident in Farmington. If it had gone to trial, the state would have shown that Thibault took jewelry valued at more than $5,000 and blank checks from an Archer Road home where he was working for the homeowners.

A Franklin Savings Bank representative would have testified that Thibault cashed four checks made out to him amounting to $2,924 that he forged. Thibault also faced a felony charge of passing a roadblock involving a stolen truck in 2009.

A case from March 2009 was recently solved in Wilton and resulted in Thibault facing charges of burglary, theft and possession of a firearm by a felon. A .22-caliber gun, a television set, coins and a watch were reported missing. Another burglary occurred in Lewiston in October 2009 when Thibault was charged with taking two laptops and about $5,000 in cash from a friend and her roommates’ apartment where he was staying.

Thibault was ordered to make restitution of $5,020 to the bank and victims within two years of being released from prison and more than $6,000 to the Lewiston victims once he leaves prison. Other fines owed to the court, along with a $400 fine for drug possession, came to more than $1,300, Murphy said.

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