Nicholas Elysee jailed after cop car rammed at Berwick Springs Hotel
Two stupid sidekicks slammed a stolen Mercedes into a police car before collecting a tree during a botched getaway, a court has heard.
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A doped-up thief who took part in a botched getaway from police in a $60,000 stolen luxury car has been jailed.
Nicholas Elysee was jailed for six months in the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on May 19 over a string of crimes across Melbourne southeast.
The court heard Elysee and his co-accused were seated in a stolen $60,000 Mercedes parked at the Berwick Springs Hotel when police pulled up behind them after a registration check just before 1am on March 26 last year.
Elysee’s sidekick scrambled to start the engine, slamming the accelerator and into the police car behind them before crashing into a nearby tree.
Officers smashed the car’s window and found cannabis in Elysee’s pocket, the court heard, with checks revealing the luxury ride had been pinched from a Mont Albert address five weeks earlier.
The court was told Elysee also broke into a number of shipping containers in the southeast before spray painting the word ‘payback’ across the steel and getting away with a Nissan ute just after midnight on December 15, 2019.
The vehicle’s GPS tracked Elysee across Cranbourne, Clyde, Narre Warren and Hallam between 4am and 10am before he broke into a shed at a Narre Warren community centre.
Magistrate Julie O’Donnell heard Elysee had struggled with drug use but was committed to his job as a concreter outside of custody.
“He continues to demonstrate a hard work ethic … he’s been working there since 2019,” the defence said.
Magistrate O’Donnell said Elysee had been involved in a “very serious incident” but noted he was “trying” to improve his life.
Elysee, who pleaded guilty to charges including theft of motor vehicle and burglary, was convicted and jailed for six months with 87 days spent in custody reckoned as time served.
He was also fined $800.