Ex Melbourne model/Kilbreda College student Sophie Closter admits car theft and drug charges
A former Melbourne glamour model and Mornington track rider who spiralled into drugs and crime has got her life back on track.
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A Bayside private school dropout turned glamour model is back on the right track after spiralling into a life of car boosting crime.
Sophie Closter, 29, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to multiple car theft and drug possession charges.
Closter was nabbed boosting multiple vehicles during a spree which spanned Melbourne’s southeast and west between October 2019 and August 2021.
Closter pinched an $8000 Toyota Prado from Safety Beach on October 15, 2020 and an $18,000 black Lexus is250 at Springvale on February 5, 2021.
Closter shifted her criminality to Melbourne’s west where she was collared at Altona Meadows in August, 2021.
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit members arrested Closter who was pinched with Oxy, valium and various stolen bank cards and driver’s licences.
Closter was earlier arrested while staying at the Waltzing Matilda Hotel Springvale after police spotted the Lexus in the car park in February 2021.
Investigators linked Closter to the Prado via CCTV gleaned from a Dandenong storage centre.
The defence submitted Closter experienced some difficult family tragedies while she attended school.
These tragedies put Closter on a trajectory of drug use and crime, the court was told.
Closter, who kicked off her spree with a mountain bike theft at Carnegie in October 2019, has become a first-time mother since her latest offending.
The court accepted Closter had got her life on the right track since giving birth and was now drug free.
Closter claims, via social media, to be a former Kilbreda student but the court heard she had no fixed abode at the time of her offending.
The court heard Closter dropped out of high school but later worked as a model, a car detailer, and a track rider and stable hand at Mornington racecourse.
Closter was convicted and ordered to be of good behaviour for 12 months and pay $750 to the court fund.
