Rinald Raymond Lebois sentenced for stealing Range Rover, laptops, iPhone from Unley Park homes

A man with more than 150 convictions has been sentenced after stealing luxury items – including a car worth $140k – from an affluent Adelaide suburb.

A man with “about 150 prior” convictions has been sentenced for yet another crime that he gloated about to his girlfriend via text messages, a court has heard.

Rinald Raymond Lebois, 38, was sentenced in the District Court on February 16 after a judge gave him a final warning to end his “life of crime”.

Judge Simon Stratton said in sentencing that Lebois’ most recent offending, in November 2021, saw him steal a variety of luxury items from Unley Park in Adelaide’s inner south.

“In the early hours, you were part of a joint enterprise whereby a residential home in Unley Park was broken into with the intention to commit theft while the two residents were asleep,” he said.

“The joint enterprise stole property including laptop computers, a watch, an iPhone, a drone bag, jewellery and personal papers, and then utilising keys that you also stole, you stole a $140,000 Range Rover from their garage.”

Judge Stratton said Lebois then broke into two other Unley Park homes where he stole items including “a number of named designer and gold watches and jewellery”.

Lebois was subsequently charged with three counts of theft, one count of aggravated serious criminal trespass and one count of using a motor vehicle without consent.

Judge Stratton said Lebois’ had shown a disregard for the promises he had made to judges previously and had “simply continued to offend in exactly the same way as before”.

Rinald Lebois was jailed for stealing keys to a Range Rover and then the car, laptops, iPhone and jewellery from homes in Unley Park.

“In fact, your attitude is tellingly revealed in text messages and photos retrieved from your girlfriend’s phone,” he said.

“For example, at 5.57am on 20 November 2021, you sent her two photos of the Range Rover you had just stolen accompanied by a text message saying ‘That’s our new car, babe’.

“You were pleased with your night’s work and you were clearly intending to keep the Range Rover.

“You are clearly an intelligent man who knows exactly what to say in mitigation in an attempt to reduce your sentences.

“The court can only hope at some stage you actually change your attitude and you actually resolve your life of crime.”

Judge Stretton said Lebois’ defence counsel had submitted their client “just went along” with others.

“It is just ridiculous to suggest that you just went along with what others were doing in the way that you mentioned in your evidence, when, in fact, you ended up with the $140,000 stolen vehicle, informing your girlfriend it was going to be your new family car,” he said.

Lebois was sentenced to seven years imprisonment with a non-parole period of five years, seven months and seven days.

The sentence was backdated to December 8, 2021.