With more court cases pending, William R. Cypher was sentenced Thursday to serve time in state prison.

Cypher, 38, of 973 Forker Blvd., Apartment 4, Sharon, was sentenced to 9 to 24 months in prison and a year of probation by Mercer County Common Pleas Judge Thomas R. Dobson.

Cypher pleaded guilty April 8 to retail theft and simple assault. The charges stemmed from an incident in September when employees of Wal-Mart in Hermitage saw him hiding a compact disc burner and three movies under his clothing, police said. When Cypher tried to leave, security guards stopped him and during a scuffle Cypher bit one of the employees, police said.