HAMILTON — A Fairfield man will be spending three years in prison for stealing 840 frozen pizza pies.

Steven Proffitt, 47, pleaded guilty last week to breaking and entering spanning three years. He cut locks off refrigerated trucks at Kraft Foods in Monroe and loaded hundreds of pies into his pickup truck.

On July 5, 2006, 240 frozen pies were stolen. Another 240 were taken Feb. 9, 2007. On Feb. 16, 252 were stolen and on March 21, he loaded 108 DiGiorno rising crust pizzas into his Chevy S-10, according to court records.

Monroe police were alerted about a theft in progress the night of March 21. Proffitt, in his truck loaded with pizzas, sped past officers, eventually crashing into a fence. He managed to eluded them, leaving behind the truck, pizzas, chain cutters and tools.

Two days later, he reported his truck stolen to the Butler County Sheriff's Office. Police arrested him a few days later at a residence in New Miami.

"We have him and his truck on tape," county assistant prosecutor Jason Phillabaum said.

Proffitt also pleaded guilty to failure to comply with the order of a police officer and falsification stemming from filing the fake stolen truck report.

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