No jail for prolific perpretator of theft, motoring and drug offences while high on ice on our roads
A ROGUE who police constantly nabbed over a six-month period driving stolen cars, off his head on ice, and unlicensed, has still managed to dodge jail.
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A ROGUE who police constantly nabbed over a six-month period driving stolen cars, off his head on ice, and unlicensed, has still managed to dodge jail.
Marcus Benjamin Schafer, 29, of Cheltenham, pleaded guilty to more than 20 driving, drug and theft-related charges, as well as breaching court orders.
At a May 30 hearing, the Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court heard Schafer was seen by police riding a stolen motorbike before pulling up into his own driveway in June last year.
He admitted he didn’t have a licence, and the plates didn’t belong to that bike, which had been stolen from St Kilda a month earlier.
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Police then spotted another motorbike in his front yard, also stolen, with no plates.
And in the backyard were two stolen pushbikes, a nicked bike engine, and three more sets of pilfered numberplates.
A month later he was picked up in the early hours of the morning driving an unregistered, unroadworthy car, without lights, in Cheltenham.
In August police spotted him again in Parkdale, in an unregistered car with no plates, still unlicensed, and this time off his head on ice.
In September, while police raiding his house, he drove past them without stopping, later trying to tell them he wasn’t behind the wheel.
And then in November he was caught again, this time at McDonalds in Dingley Village, in a car again with no plates, expired rego, no licence, and tested positive for meth.
Magistrate Franz Holzer said Schafer was “on pretty thin ice”, with a “woeful history”, and he needed to appreciate how close to jail he was.
But he was still young, and was “not beyond redemption”, Mr Holzer said.
Schafer told the court “it had only recently hit home how serious my behaviour had been”, and he didn’t want to go to jail.
He was given a two-year community corrections order, must do 250 hours of unpaid work and attend drug counselling.
He was also banned from the road for 32 months.
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