Wide Bay offenders who wear big name labels
These young offenders have faced courts across the Wide Bay recently, wearing big-name labels like Nautica, Nike, Adidas, Fila and Gucci. Some even had them tattooed to their body.
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They are the offenders who have faced court in the Wide Bay with one thing in common - a love of big name brands.
Whether it’s Nautica, Nike, Adidas, Fila or Gucci, these offenders are so committed to labels some have tattoos of their logos.
Here is a list of some of the label-clad offenders who have recently faced court in the Wide Bay region.
Teen’s violent attack on ‘mother figure’
A Gympie labourer pushed a woman he considered a “mother figure” 3m down a hill, breaking her ankle, a court heard in February this year.
Baedin William Allan Huth, 18, faced Gympie Magistrates Court in February where he pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm, wilful damage and contravening a police requirement.
The court heard Huth had taken his biological mother‘s car without permission, and when the “mother figure” asked him to hand over the keys he swore at her and pushed her.
The woman suffered a hit to the head on concrete, a broken ankle and a torn off fingernail.
The court heard Huth also dented a man‘s car.
He was fined $200 and put on probation for 15 months. Convictions were not recorded.
Dog choker’s prison sentence for terrorising ex with knife
A father of three who tried to choke a police dog during a pursuit faced court in July, 2022, charged with terrorising his former partner with a knife.
Maryborough Magistrates Court heard that Hayden Lee Henderson had previously launched an attack on a police dog, choking it, biting its head, punching it and attempting to gauge its eyes.
The court heard Henderson’s offences began he turned up at the home of his former partner and “effectively moved … back in” despite her protests.
Three days later, he got into an argument with her before brandishing a bread knife and standing in his partner‘s way when she tried to leave.
The court heard Henderson had an extensive criminal history, including offences of violence and a brutal attack on a police dog.
Henderson was given a head sentence of two years in prison and the suspended sentence of three months was activated.
The 223 days Henderson had spent in pre-sentence custody was declared as time served.
A parole release date was set for August 15, 2022.
Young man stole to fuel drug habit
Locklen Alexander Sheehy was homeless and looking for property he could sell to buy drugs in October 2021 when fingerprints revealed he’d broken into a car in Bundaberg.
Not long after, he was found asleep in another car that did not belong to him. Later that day he stole a woman‘s purse and spent $1240.87 shopping around Bundaberg.
In February 2022, he pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court to 20 charges, including one of enter premises and commit indictable offence by break, one of unlaw entry of a vehicle for committing an indictable offence, one count of stealing and 17 counts of fraud relating to the bank card transactions.
Sheehy, who spent 115 days in custody, was given a head sentence of nine months, suspended for 12 months.
Man threatened neighbour with knife
Kenan Dustin Charles Roberts was 18 years-of-age when he visited a neighbour who owed him $60 and threatened him with a knife.
The Bundaberg District Court was told on in February 2023, that Roberts was carrying a steak knife in his bum bag when he visited his victim in Avenell Heights on August 9, 2022.
When the victim told Roberts he didn’t have the money, Roberts said, “You better get me the money or I’ll stab you” before the victim went to another neighbour’s place under the guise of getting the money.
Instead, he called for help.
For the attempted armed robbery, Roberts, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 12 months’ prison, with immediate parole eligibility.
Same car stolen twice in one day
Amid a range of offences, a young unemployed Bundaberg man stole the same car twice in one day, Bundaberg Magistrates Court heard in December 2022.
Brodie Samuel Jasperse pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing after a previous conviction, one count of driving while disqualified (for two years), one count of possessing utensils, one count of possessing a dangerous drug, two counts of receiving tainted property, one count of unlawful possession of suspected stolen property and one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
The court heard that Jasperse had stolen a car from a Bundaberg property and when the owner heard where it had been taken and retrieved it with his spare keys, Jasperse returned and took the car again.
Jasperse received a head sentence of eight months, along with an activated former suspended sentence, with immediate eligibility for parole.
For driving without a licence, he was disqualified from driving for a further three years.
Napping crim blamed ‘crackheads’
When police arrived to carry out a search warrant at Jesse Steven Moras’s Bundaberg home, they found the unemployed dad snoozing.
But what else they found would land the repeat offender in custody.
The details were heard in Bundaberg Magistrates Court in November 2022.
During the search on June 23, 2022, police found meth, a medication usually prescribed for serious mental health conditions and rounds of ammunition.
Officers also found a Dell laptop with a Bundaberg Regional Council sticker attached to it.
Two days later, police stopped Moras, who was riding an e-scooter, and found he had a bag containing two points of meth inside his phone cover.
On August 9, police returned to Moras’s home to carry out another search warrant and discovered a glass pipe, a shotgun round with a “large amount of ammunition” and scales.
Of particular concern, the court heard, was a gel blaster which looked like a glock.
The court heard Moras co-operated with police and admitted using meth, but told officers he injected it and the pipe wasn’t his.
A letter to the court from Moras’s partner stated that “crackheads” tended to frequent the couple’s home so it could have come to be there because of that.
Moras pleaded guilty to one count of receiving tainted property, two counts of possessing dangerous drugs, one count of possessing Schedule 4 or Schedule 8 drugs, three counts of possessing explosives, one count of possessing utensils or pipes, one count of possessing a restricted item,
Moras received a head sentence of 12 months’ prison, with an immediate parole release date taking into account 23 days of pre-sentence custody as time served.
He was be supervised on parole for 12 months.
Convictions were recorded.
Hearing aid scammer faces court
Bundaberg Magistrates Court heard in October 2022, how a father preyed on the vulnerable, stealing from a Lifeline op shop twice and taking money for a hearing aid he sold on Facebook but never delivered.
Brendan Patrick Schnack, 25, pleaded guilty to entering a premises and committing an indictable offence, entering a premises and committing indictable offence by breaking in, failing to appear in court, fraud and two breaches of bail.
Schnack was sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid community service for the first instance of breaking in to Lifeline, and for the offence of failing to appear, he was convicted and fined $150, referred to SPER.
For the Facebook fraud offence, Schnack was sentenced to one months‘ prison, to be served concurrently with his other sentence, and ordered to pay $50 restitution to his victim, referred to SPER.
For the second Lifeline offence, Schnack was sentenced to two months’ prison, to be served concurrently.
For each bail breach, he was fined $100, referred to SPER, with convictions recorded.
Schnack’s prison terms were wholly suspended.
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