A WARRNAMBOOL ice addict who went on a drug-fuelled crime spree has been jailed for eight months.
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Adam Troy Parker, 35, of Bolden Avenue, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court this week to 20 charges.
Magistrate John Lesser said drug addiction was not an excuse for the offending, but did give it context. Parker was imprisoned for 14 months with a minimumm of eight before being eligible for parole.
He has already served 171 days in custody.
Parker was also convicted and fined $700 and ordered to pay more than $5000 compensation.
Police said that earlier this year Parker twice broke into Port Fairy’s Royal Oak Hotel, where he had previously lived, stealing $3300 in cash, a laptop computer and TV set-top box valued at $1122. In March Parker and a woman broke into a Koroit Street hairdresser’s and stole a cash register containing $250.
Four days later he stole horse medication valued at $500 and an employee’s bank card from stables at the Warrnambool racecourse. He used the card to obtain alcohol, protein powder, two music CDs and other goods and cash, some of which police found on March 28 in a raid on his home.
The previous day Parker had argued with the occupant of a Ryan Court house and returned at 1am with a crowbar, again arguing and smashing a window.
An overnight burglary on April 27 at a Wollaston Road property netted him a range of tools, which were put in the boot of a woman’s unregistered car.
The woman parked the car at a Donovans Road home when she believed she was being watched by police.
Parker, who was disqualified from driving for four years in 2011, rode a bike without a helmet to go and pick up the car for the woman.
He was intercepted by police and the car seized under the hoon legislation. Police later found the stolen items in the boot.
Defence counsel Matt Senia said his client had a lengthy criminal record but the spate of recent offending happened after Parker began using ice — crystal methamphetamine — on a daily basis, which sent him “completely off the rails”.
He said Parker also had an aggravated burglary charge which would be heard in the next sitting of the Warrnambool County Court starting on November 24, for which his client was expected to receive another jail sentence.