A Newbury Park man pleaded no contest Wednesday to burglarizing a home owned by pop star Miley Cyrus.
Rusty Edward Sellner, 22, broke into the singer’s Toluca Lake house on Dec. 16 and took a large amount of personal property belonging to Cyrus and her brother, according to Deputy District Attorney Brad Harmon.
He was arrested Jan. 5 by Los Angeles police and has remained in jail since then.
Sellner — who is due back in a Van Nuys courtroom for sentencing April 1 — is facing two years in state prison on his no contest plea to one count of first-degree residential burglary, according to the prosecutor.
The case marked the second in recent months involving a burglary at a home belonging to Cyrus, but officials at the district attorney’s office were unable to confirm whether the break-ins occurred at the same property.
An Arizona man and woman were sentenced last September to time behind bars in connection with a May 30 break-in. Tylor Scott, then 19, pleaded no contest to residential burglary and grand theft and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Naomi Charles, then 21, pleaded no contest to residential burglary and was sentenced to one year in jail and four years probation, along with a four- year prison sentence that she won’t have to serve if she complies with the terms of probation.
— City News Service