Toowoomba car thief and home invader Latrell Wright pleads guilty to 30 crimes
A repeat car thief operating in the Toowoomba area is now eligible for parole after pleading guilty to breaking into a raft of homes while on parole for the same crime.
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A recidivist property offender from the Toowoomba region was deemed eligible to apply for parole after pleading guilty to more than 30 property, driving, and drug-related crimes.
On Monday, August 12, 19-year-old Latrell Wright, pleaded guilty to a number of unlawful use and break-and-enter offences that occurred in Toowoomba at the beginning of 2024.
Toowoomba Magistrates Court was told Wright committed the crimes about two months after he was released from prison for similar offences, and he was on a parole order.
Details of Wright’s crime were not read into the record when he was sentenced to a 19-month jail term on August 12, 2024.
Magistrate Michelle Dooley told Wright if he didn’t want to spend the rest of his youth in detention he needed to “sort himself out” because the community was tired of people breaking into homes and stealing cars.
She warned him the penalties would only get longer and longer, and to think before he acts on the future.
Solicitor Claire Graham said soon after the teenager was released from prison he relapsed after becoming homeless and taking up with old acquaintances.
Ms Graham said Wright had a rough childhood where he was subjected to violence, which led to him dropping out of school year 7 and becoming addicted to drugs in his early teens.
She said the young man was supported in court by his mother and had aspirations to leave Toowoomba to help get his life back on track.
Wright was sentenced to a 19-month jail term and was suspended from driving for at least four years after he pleaded guilty to a number of crimes including the dangerous operation of a vehicle, fraud, receiving tainted property, stealing, trespass, driving disqualified, break and enter, and unlawful use.
The 179 days he spent in pre-sentence custody were declared as time served, and he was deemed eligible to apply for parole.
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