He didn't get to keep the jacket, but at least he got himself a jumpsuit.
The 46-year-old man arrested outside Nicolas Cage's Newport Beach home in October after the actor awoke to find the intruder standing in his kitchen, wearing Cage's leather jacket and nothing else, has pleaded guilty to one count of felony stalking.
Robert Dennis Furo Jr., whose attorney described him as being in a "drug-induced daze" when he walked into Cage's house, was sentenced Thursday to time served in Orange County Jail and six months of drug rehabilitation. He will spend one month in lock-down and five in a residential home, according to the O.C. District Attorney's Office.
He has also been ordered to refrain from contacting or approaching Cage by any means and to remain at least 100 yards away from the Oscar winner and his family.
Charges of burglary and theft with a prior conviction have been dismissed. Furo, a former caretaker, is scheduled to be transferred Friday to a rehab facility in Tarzana. According to defense attorney Jack Kayajanian, if Furo completes the program and three years' formal probation, he can apply to have his felony count reduced to a misdemeanor.
Per Newport Beach police, Furo was arrested in the early morning hours of Oct. 1 after Cage, who spied the intruder at about 1:30 a.m., escorted him outside and called his gated community's security detail.
Furo had relatives who live in the community and therefore had an identification sticker on his car that allowed him to drive past the gate. At the time, he was taking sleeping pills and Vicodin, Kayajanian said, lauding Cage for "recognizing the frailty" of his client.
"Apparently there were a couple of doors ajar. There was no breaking and entering," the lawyer said. "This young man walked through an open door and somehow he went upstairs. He took his clothes off in the bathroom. He saw a jacket with a brand new tag in the closet."
The guards notified the cops, who took Furo into custody without incident. Cage's wife, Alice Kim, and their toddler son Kal-El were asleep inside the house when the break-in occurred.
With this face-off behind him, the Family Man can now go back to basking in his number-one-movie-in-America status. National Treasure: Book of Secrets was tops at the box office for the third straight weekend and has taken in nearly $175 million domestically since its Dec. 21 release, further securing Cage's somewhat surprising status as one of the biggest action heroes around right now.
Next up for Cage, who turned 44 on Monday, is the hit-man thriller Bangkok Dangerous and the actiony-sounding G-Force, in theaters in May 2009.