A Bend man received four and half years in prison as part a settlement of three criminal cases involving theft and violence against strangers.

The sentencing agreement for Jesse Lynn Kline was one of the most complicated such documents Judge A. Michael Adler had ever seen, he said Wednesday. It featured 27 total charges across a trio of open cases, including a mugging and flight from the law in 2017, a pair of home burglaries last month, and another assault while he was in jail for the mugging case. Kline pleaded guilty to the charges on Wednesday in Deschutes County Circuit Court.

In May 2017, Kline, 37, was motivated by “severe addiction” when he mugged a man and woman in an alley behind the Bend Grocery Outlet, then led police on a vehicle chase to Redmond, where he fled police on foot, according to his court-appointed attorney, Tim Griffith.

Two months later, while in custody, he was arrested for assaulting another inmate.

Then late last month, while on release from jail, Kline was arrested on suspicion of breaking into two houses south of Bend, “ransacking” rooms and closets, and stealing items including firearms, jewelry and a bottle of expensive liquor.

His arrest in connection with the burglaries originated when a person reported in an online neighborhood watch forum seeing Kline’s white van parked outside one of the homes he burglarized.

Kline wore a navy jail jumpsuit appearing in Deschutes County Circuit Court. He has prior convictions for burglary in Los Angeles County, and two in Deschutes County for driving under the influence of intoxicants.

He is also the subject of a $152,000 lawsuit filed by a woman claiming he was negligent in December 2015 when he drove head-on into her Jeep pickup as she was waiting in a turn lane outside the High Desert Museum on U.S. Highway 97.