A 31-year-old man was jailed for three months for multiple offences all involving an incident of theft.
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Andrew Marc Laszlo Lorant was sentenced in Mudgee Local Court last Tuesday (April 21), however has already served the term of imprisonment, having been refused bail since January 15.
At about 10am on Friday, November 29, 2019, he stole a high-performance torch (priced at $199) from Home and Office Electronics, by concealing it within his clothes. Lorant returned to the store at about 2pm on Thursday, December 19, and took a drone and USB torch (total $120), hid them within his clothes and paid for a key-ring.
Both incidents were captured on the store's CCTV.
He was charged with larceny, drug possession, and having a knife in a public place, on Sunday, December 1, 2019.
At about 7am, Lorant entered Bunnings and took a battery pack (valued at $149) and a rotary tool ($69), concealed them in his jacket and left the store without paying. A staff member followed him to the car park and recorded his vehicle's number plates and called police, who recognised him upon viewing the CCTV footage.
Officers found his vehicle outside of a Gulgong premises suspected of drug supply and waited until Lorant got back in and drove away. They stopped and searched the vehicle and found; the jacket seen in the CCTV footage; 0.2g of methamphetamine in his wallet; and a knife in the driver seat.
He told them he'd already sold the stolen items to purchase the drug.
At about 9am the next morning (Monday, December 2), Lorant was in a group that had shoplifted from Camping World, a staff member followed them and gave their vehicle's number plate details to police. When officers tracked it down, stopped and searched it, they found a knife in a bag owned by a passenger.
Lorant said it was his and it was for fishing, although no other fishing gear was seen in the vehicle. A check of the store's inventory confirmed that it was stolen and that it was worth $90.
On Sunday, January 12, he was charged with larceny and trespassing, the latter due to being issued with a banning notice from Coles in May last year.
The supermarket's CCTV from 3pm that afternoon, showed Lorant enter empty-handed. In the produce department he was seen putting roast pork and roast chicken into a cooler shopping bag and then leaving the store without paying.