Darren Maurice Jordan jailed for stealing motorbikes and having concealed handgun in hospital
When Darren Maurice Jordan arrived home on a stolen motorbike he didn’t expect police to be waiting for him.
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When police tried to arrest Darren Maurice Jordan, he attempted to escape on a stolen motorbike.
But it was the discovery of what he had hidden in a bag around his waist which really landed him in hot water with the courts.
Jordan, of Wayville, who was both on bail and on a good behaviour bond, will be in prison until at least 2022, after a loaded semiautomatic pistol was found in the bag along with a further 32 rounds of live ammunition.
Police were investigating a spate of motorbike thefts in the Adelaide CBD on April 10, 2019 when they had a stroke of luck.
As officers were waiting outside his home to talk to him about the recent thefts, Jordan arrived on a stolen motorbike.
Police told him to get off the bike but Jordan tried to move it backwards.
As officers arrested him, Jordan dislocated his shoulder and needed treatment.
He was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and it was not until he was in the emergency department that the bag which had been around his waist was removed.
The gun was unregistered and forensic testing showed it functioned properly.
District Court Judge Wayne Chivell, during sentencing last week, said that there was no excuse for carrying such a weapon.
“The seriousness of the offending is aggravated by the fact that the pistol was loaded, it was concealed about your person, you were carrying it in public, you were subject to a bond at the time and you were also on bail,” he said.
“Possession of a handgun in Australia is regarded as a very serious offence. The penalty I impose must be severe in order to bring home to you and others who might be minded to carry such weapons that it will not be tolerated.”
Jordan was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison, with a non-parole period of two years, 11 months.
“You are now at a stage of your life where you can go in one of two directions,” Judge Chivell said.
“If you continue allowing your offending to escalate you have very little to look forward to but longer and longer sentences of imprisonment as the court seeks to deter you from offending.”