U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven sentenced a 49-year-old Colchester man Wednesday to three years of probation for stealing products amounting to tens of thousands of dollars from a Texas computer technology company.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut in a news release said Myron Ware, who pleaded guilty to a count of mail fraud in March, also was ordered to pay $77,068.40 in restitution.

The agency said Ware from 2017 to 2020 identified businesses that had purchased computer parts from the unnamed Texas-based company. Then he contacted the company about 30 times and falsely claimed he was speaking for one of those customers.

He usually said a part was not working and requested the company replace the part, according to the release. He provided an address near the customer and then went to that address to pick up the package.

“Ware sold most of the parts and components he received to others and kept some for his own use,” the release said.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Secret Service.