A 46-year-old Kennewick man sentenced to prison last week after pleading guilty to two counts of stalking asked to be let out of jail for the day Saturday.
Michael Dean Shaffer said he needed the day to secure his belongings before he's sent to the state Department of Corrections to serve his time.
He was sentenced last week in Benton County Superior Court to one year and two months in prison.
Shaffer picked up a second stalking charge in September after a woman he dated for three weeks in the summer said he continued to go on her property and repeatedly sent her text messages, even after she got an anti-harassment order against him.
At the time, Shaffer was out on bail for a stalking charge involving another woman.
Judge Craig Matheson denied the furlough request after reading the charging documents in the cases, saying "it's too great a risk."
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