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Jun 8, 2009 1:15 pm US/Central

Man Sentenced In Plot To Steal Neighbor's Heart

STILLWATER, Minn. (CBS) ― A Woodbury, Minn. man was sentenced to three months in prison after plotting to kill another man and take some of his body parts.

Andrew Busskohl, 19, pleaded guilty to harassment/stalking with intent to injure and third-degree damage to property on April 20. He will also spend four years on probation, reports CBS station WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.

Police said Busskohl, who received a heart transplant in 2003, was accused of plotting to break into a stranger's house, murder him and take out his heart. The act was never carried out.

Busskohl was also originally charged with attempted murder, a charge which a judge later dropped because of a lack of probable cause.

In court on Monday, Busskohl spoke, saying, "I understand what I've done was very wrong."

After Busskohl was arrested in August of 2008, his family posted a $100,000 bail and he was freed. Jim Fratto, who Busskohl was plotting to kill, questioned why Busskohl was released so quickly and was living just a few blocks away from his home.

"He bought all the resources to murder me," Fratto said. "He did the first step -- he came to my house, cased my house, broke the window and intended to come back and murder me."

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