CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A former Notre Dame College student photographer who stole 656 pair of women's underwear from fellow students, including athletes he photographed, was sentenced to spend 10 days in Cuyahoga County Jail.

Common Pleas Judge Steven Gall called David Zinram a "bad guy" who deserved prison time, but the judge said he couldn't send the 22-year-old Westlake native to prison on the low-level felony charges that Zinram pleaded guilty to last month.

"I have grave concerns about your behavior, what I'm going to characterize as deviant behavior," Gall said.

Zinram struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving stolen property, a fourth-degree felony, and one count of misdemeanor theft. Sentencing guidelines lead judges to give probation for felonies under the third degree.

Zinram's March arrest broke open a case that had puzzled Notre Dame campus detectives for months and struck fear across the campus dorms, Notre Dame College Police Chief Jeffrey Scott said.

More than a dozen students in campus dorms filed complaints that their underwear and bras were taken from laundry rooms, and police were preparing to install undercover cameras to catch the thief, Scott said.

A student washing her clothes March 17 spotted Zinram in her floor's laundry room. She thought it was strange that she had never seen him before and tried to strike up a conversation. But Zinram quickly left. The woman left just after that and came back, to find Zinram holding a pair of women's underwear.

She called police, who were able to identify Zinram. They searched his room, which was next door to the dorm's laundry room, and found 656 pieces of women's underwear hidden inside the ceiling tiles, detective Michael Ohl said as he dumped a lawn clippings bag full of underwear onto the prosecution's table.

As detectives continued investigating, they found a bottle of the ADHD drug Vyvanse in his dorm room that was prescribed to the neighbor of Zinram's parents' home in Westlake. They also found some of the underwear in Zinram's dorm belonged to the same neighbor.

Zinram also stole the driver's licenses of at least 10 students, cut out their photographs and carried them in his wallet, Ohl said. A search of Zinram's web history showed he was researching how to break into cars and houses, and pornography that depicted rape and a video called "Panty Sniffer Gets Caught," Ohl said.

Many of the victims were student athletes Zinram's photographed playing sports for the school.

"He used his position as a student and a very talented photographer to prey upon these victims," Scott said.

Zinram was originally charged with burglary in the Westlake case, but prosecutors dropped the charge in exchange for Zinram's plea.

Gall asked Zinram if he broke into the house in Westlake house. Zinram told the judge that his memory has been "foggy" and that he couldn't remember going into the house.

"The sarcastic nature in me may say that's convenient that you had a memory loss," Gall told Zinram.

Zinram's parents painted their son as remorseful and ashamed. His teachers and baseball coaches in high school often reveled at Zinram's respectfulness, and his mother, Cindy Zinram, said he always held the door for strangers during trips to the grocery store.

He was diagnosed with ADHD and was prescribed Adderall while at Notre Dame. The drug exacerbated an undiagnosed sleeping disorder, his therapist Koricke said.

Cindy Zinram said her son stopped showering, stopped changing his clothes and lost his respectful demeanor when he began taking the medication.

Since his arrest, Zinram has left the college, cstopped taking Adderall and is being treated by a psychologist and a sleep specialist.

Zinram's parents said their son has started volunteering at their church, is interested in joining Habitat for Humanity and wants to get his life back together.

While both of Zinram's parents apologized to the victims in the case, Zinram did not directly apologize.

"I know that what I did was wrong, and I feel for the victims," Zinram said. "Adderall is not an excuse for the situation, but it's a little bit of an explanation that was a bigger story and I just hope that you can understand that."

After Zinram spoke, Gall asked him if there was anything else he wanted to say.

"No, not at this point," Zinram said.

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