Braedon Carter: Macquarie Fields man charged with stealing a car to buy cigarettes in Vaucluse
The ‘Find My Phone’ feature on a stolen iphone was a young man’s undoing, quickly revealing a two-day stealing spree including buying bulk cigarettes.
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The affluent Sydney suburb of Vaucluse was the starting point for what police later discovered to be a trail of stealing offences committed by a 19-year-old Macquarie Fields man, a court heard.
Braedon Carter admitted to breaking into two cars, a black Jeep Grand Cherokee in Captain Pipers Road and a Madza CX-3 in nearby Black Street in early October.
He took a number of items including a wallet, a handbag, an iphone6 and a key car for a Black Hyundai, according to agreed police facts tendered to Campbelltown Local Court.
Carter then took off in the Black Hyundai Electra and began using the stolen credit cards.
He used one of the victim’s bank cards to buy $86 worth of cigarettes through ‘tap and go’ from a grocery store in Macquarie Fields just hours later.
Shortly after Carter was identified in CCTV driving the stolen car to a 7/11 service station in Ingleburn to buy more cigarettes.
Meantime, the second victim activated his ‘Find my Phone’ app which came up as being in Macquarie Fields.
A week later, officers were patrolling Beech Street in Macquarie Fields when they noticed the Black Hyundai.
Black tape had been used to change a number ‘5’ into a ‘6’ on the number plates, revealing the stolen car.
Carter was arrested and charged with multiple offences including two counts of larceny, take and drive conveyance without consent of owner, never licenced person drive vehicle on the road.
He pleaded guilty to all charges in Campbelltown Court and will be sentenced at a later date.