By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter
SEATTLE, Wash. — A Seattle man who was nicknamed the “Santa Claus burglar” after he became stuck in a chimney for nearly six hours during a botched burglary was sentenced Thursday morning to 17 months in prison.
Police said they responded to a house in the 7700 block of Seward Park Avenue South on Feb. 19 after a neighbor reported hearing a man yelling for help. Shon Shanell, 23, had put a chair on a central air-conditioning unit to climb onto the roof of the Seward Park home.
It took medics 45 minutes to chisel away bricks from the chimney to free Shanell, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
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