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Man Believed To Be Living Above Restaurant's Ceiling Pleads Guilty

DENVER (CBS4) - A man who fell through the ceiling of a restaurant in downtown Denver has pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal trespass.

Man trapped wall Yard House
The scene Wednesday morning (credit: CBS)

Stephen Graves, 36, crashed through the ceiling of the Yard House, a restaurant and bar on the 16th Street Mall, in December.

A sprinkler head broke and the resulting flooding caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage.

YARD HOUSE TRAPPED MAN map
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Investigators believe Graves was secretly living in the rafters above the restaurant. He was ordered to serve two years of mental health probation to run concurrent with two other cases.

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