Police had received a report about a man in dark clothing carrying a backpack and a butchers knife jumping fences and running through houses on March 9, 2021.

About 7.30pm they saw Mark Kenneth Baker, 34, of Moad Street, wearing a black jacket and carrying a back pack so they stopped him at Glenroi Oval on Orchard Grove Road.

Police asked Baker where he had been and he told them he had been to his mother's house and walked through a lane behind the hockey fields.

He appeared to be unsettled and kept looking over his shoulders while police were talking to him. He was told he would be searched and admitted to having "some stuff".

Police found him with cannabis in his pants pocket.

Magistrate David Day fined him $220.

Baker had a similar matter back in 2009.

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