A 19-year-old man who broke into a Rylstone store and stole more than $6000 in stock and cash and then spent more than a year trying to avoid police, was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence in Mudgee Local Court on Wednesday.
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Adam Sarkozy of Castlereagh Highway, Mullamuddy, was charged with ‘Break and enter house etc steal value less than $60,000’.
Between 11.30pm on Monday, October 28, 2013, and 8am the next day, Sarkozy and his co-accused Layne Harvey, broke into Rylstone Home Timber and Hardware via the back of the building.
They took power tools and hand tools with a total value of over $5000 and over $1600 in cash from the store’s safe, loaded into their vehicle at the showground and left the scene.
In November 2013, police spoke with Harvey who admitted to the incident, he was placed on an 18-month good behaviour bond and ordered to pay $3300 in compensation, when he was sentenced for his part in the incident at Rylstone Local Court on Friday, June 6, 2014.
Sarkozy spent over a year trying to avoid police over the matter but was eventually charged for his part.
His solicitor, Richard Wise, told the court that his client was an “ice” user and “he needed the money to feed his habit”.
Magistrate Terry Lucas told the defendant the incident was always going to catch up with him.
“Most people get caught, property turns up, someone blabs, the police get them and bring them before me,” he said.
