A man who stole guns and motorbikes from a rural property has been jailed until 2022 after leaving his DNA on Zooper Dooper ice-block wrappers discarded at the crime scene.
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Jermaine Jones, 19, of Phillip Street, was one of four people who entered a garage at a Burrendong Way property overnight on September 16, 2019, and he was arrested after stealing the ice-blocks from a freezer and leaving the wrappers behind.
According to police, Jones and the three co-accused entered a garage on the property and stole a Mauser rifle 22-250, a .22 JW rifle, a Yamaha MX motorbike, a Kawasaki motorbike and a hunting knife as well as the ice-blocks.
Jones and the co-accused stole the guns after finding the hidden keys for the firearms cabinet.
The motorbikes were stolen from a separate shed and police found the Kawasaki the next day in Leura Road.
Police found the Yamaha in Raines Place on September 18 and both bikes were forensically examined and returned to the owner.
Jones admitted to taking part in the break and enter and said the guns were sold and he did not know where they are.
He was already serving an unrelated one-year and nine-month non-parole period when he appeared via a video link before magistrate David Day for sentencing in Orange Local Court on Monday.
Mr Day jailed him for two years with an eight-month non-parole period after taking into account his youth and it being his first time in custody. The sentence will start on August 3, 2021.
Jones has been in custody, for the other matter since November 5, 2019 and he could be eligible for release on parole for the Burrendong Way theft on April 2, 2022.
"His record as a juvenile is appalling and he's someone who needs to be brought back into the law-abiding side of the community, otherwise he will be institutionalised by the age of 25; he's only a very young man," Mr Day said.
Jones' co-accused were not named during these court proceedings.
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