A man was caught stealing more than $1000 worth of printing products in December while he was subject to two good-behaviour bonds.
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Paul Raymond White, 38, of Park Street, had been given the bonds for stealing $140 worth of Duromine weight-loss tablets from North Orange Discount Drug Store on July 11, 2017, and for an assault on April 8, 2017.
On Monday, he appeared before Magistrate David Day to be sentenced in Orange Local Court after being arrested on warrants the previous week for the December thefts and breaching the bonds.
Mr Day said White was assessed last year as being of low risk of re-offending.
“That was a bit wrong, wasn’t it,” Mr Day said on Monday when he revoked White’s bonds and restarted them to run for 12 months, concurrent, from Monday.
He also gave White a two-year good-behaviour bond for stealing three ink cartridges, worth a total of $550.89, from Office Works on December 24, and ordered him to repay the money.
A police report stated White had gone into the store at 4pm, removed three ink cartriges, walked into another aisle, removed the security stickers, placed the items in the front of his shorts and walked out.
White was also given another concurrent two-year good-behaviour bond for a second theft from the same store at 8.30am on December 28 when he stole two boxes of toner, worth a total of $452.
He was also ordered to repay the $452 for the toner, which White took off a shelf, concealed and left the store with having previously declined help from a store employee.
A store manager found discarded security labels soon after and contacted police, and White was identified on CCTV footage.
White’s solicitor Gerry Stapleton said his client had a printer at home and was short of cash at the time due to ongoing financial difficulties, which began after he was made redundant from a mining position in 2012.
He said White spent “some time” in custody after his arrest last Thursday.
