AN offender caught trying to steal items of value from a burnt out home has been jailed for five months.
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Aaron Pennell, also known as Van Someren, 33, of Owen Street, Warrnambool, appeared in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court charged with 29 offences last week.
He accepted a sentence indication of the jail term to be followed by a community corrections order and served 134 days in custody prior to being released.
This week he was palced on a 16-month community corrections order with conditions he do drug rehabilitation and programs and return to court on February 2 next year for judicial monitoring.
Magistrate Peter Mellas warned Pennell if he breached the CCO he would be resetneced and risked being jailed.
Senior Constable Brooke Pollock previously told the court Pennell was arrested in early July t Warrnambool's Ryan Court.
Pennell was asked to turn out his pockets and what he had in his pockets was covered in soot and ash.
He had been in a house which had burnt down searching for items of value.
Senior Constable Pollock said the former resident of the home contacted police after finding a bag containing a firearm, which was stolen at Purnim the previous weekend.
There was also a receipt in the bag and security camera footage at a supermarket showed Pennell had been at Coles.
On June 18 Pennell and a co-accused were in the Wanstead Street area when police received reports of two men breaking into cars.
When approached by police Pennell had black gloves, two diaries believed to be stolen from one of the cars, as well as a backpack, tyre lever, pliers and a shifter.
Pennell was also alleged to have been involved in a burglary at Warrnambool College on January 30 with two other offenders during which an iPad and laptop computer were stolen.
Security camera footage of the burglary was released and a number of people identified Pennell.
