File photo Shivam Yadav, 26, Nashua

“Mr. Yadav created a significant hardship on our business, as I’m sure he did with the other businesses,” said Laurie Greer, co-owner of SkyVenture New Hampshire, one of five businesses Yadav pleaded guilty to burglarizing during a period of several months in 2017.

“This sentence is not good enough. He should get the maximum sentence,” Greer, who attended the hearing with husband and co-owner Rob Greer, told Judge Charles Temple.

Yadav, 27, a Nashua man whose current address is unknown, pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary and two counts of accessory to burglary at the roughly 40-minute hearing at Hillsborough County Superior Court South.

He also entered pleas of “true” to two counts of violation of probation, according to the terms of the agreement.

Staff photo by Dean Shalhoup Shivam Yadav, who plead guilty to several felony burglary-related charges Wednesday as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, listens to the hearing proceedings with his lawyer, Attorney Anthony Naro.

In exchange for the guilty and true pleas, Yadav received a sentence of 258 days in Valley Street jail – the amount of time he spent in jail awaiting the disposition of his case. Being credited with time served leaves no time remaining on his sentence.

As for the burglary charges, Yadav received a sentence of two and a half years to five years in prison on the three burglary counts, and received a second sentence of the same length on the three burglary charges.

All of the sentences are deferred for two years, providing Yadav comply with all the terms of the agreement.

He is also ordered as part of the agreement to make restitution in various amounts to the businesses that he burglarized.

That includes $2,558 to SkyVenture; $638 to Zheng Garden in Hudson; $1,875 to Lilac Blossom restaurant in Nashua; $3,512 to Bonzai II, a restaurant in Milford; and $1,394 to Joey’s Diner in Amherst, according to the agreement.

Yadav is also ordered to have no contact with any of the businesses.

The parties also crafted a sentencing addendum, but requested that it be sealed. Temple granted the request, meaning its terms remain confidential.

Assistant County Attorney Michele Battaglia, who prosecuted the case, didn’t specify a reason for the request, saying only that the addendum contains several stipulations with which Yadav must comply.

Battaglia, in briefly addressing the court, said the parties spent a lot of time working out the agreement, which, she said, “hopefully puts Mr. Yadav on a better path than the one he’s been on.”

Yadav’s lawyer, Anthony Naro, told the court he is “optimistic” Yadav will turn his life around, adding his client “came fully clean when he spoke with police” when he was arrested.

Asked if he wanted to address the court, Yadav stood and turned toward the gallery.

“I want to apologize to the owners … I’m sorry,” he said, glancing toward his parents, who sat quietly in the second row behind the defense table.

“I’m glad you have the character to apologize,” Temple told Yadav. The judge described the burglaries as “a type of crime (that is) the ultimate violation of a business owner.

“They worked hard to establish their businesses,” he continued, adding that being burglarized “can destroy their business, and also their families.

“They lose their sense of security, their sense of safety, when this happens,” Temple said.

Expressing his belief that Yadav’s time in Valley Street jail amounted to “true punishment,” Temple told Yadav that the sentences are geared toward “rehabilitating you, so you don’t return to the (criminal) system.

“It’s time for you to get off the criminal path,” the judge added. He said he “greatly respects the input from the owners,” referring to the Greers. “I don’t blame them for wanting the maximum sentence.”

The time has come, Temple told Yadav, “for you to mature, to grow up, to do the right things.” Referring to his restitution obligations to the business owners, Temple told Yadav he now “must work toward repaying these good people.”

Dean Shalhoup can be reached at 594-1256, dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DeanS.

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