A man recently pleaded guilty to stealing women’s undergarments out of an apartment complex laundry room and will seek counseling for his crime.

In addition to counseling, Bradley Ray Kocher, 23, was ordered Nov. 6 to pay more than $1,300 in restitution to the victims, a $500 fine and 24 months of probation for the five counts of Class A misdemeanor theft with which he was charged, said Assistant State’s Attorney John Longwell, who prosecuted the case.

Longwell said the most important part of Kocher’s sentence was that he must seek alcohol, drug and mental health counseling for his offenses.

Although Kocher was charged with five counts of misdemeanor theft, Longwell said Kocher actually had stolen more than that, and the state could have charged him with more counts of theft. However, they did not, because of his cooperation and admittance to his problem. Longwell said he thought the penalty was sufficient.

Kocher was arrested Oct. 6 in his Park Place apartment home on the 1600 block of Seventh Street for stealing women’s undergarments after a tenant caught him on video stealing the garments from the apartment complex’s laundry room. Kocher fled the scene in a car and the tenant wrote down his license plate number and authorities apprehended him, Longwell said.