Stephen Scordo: Hallam hoon sentenced for traffic-stop burnout

A selfish Hallam hoon who did a donut in his hotted-up Holden has been handed his fate — and he didn’t like it.

Stephen Scordo did a donut in his hotted-up Holden after his mates blocked traffic on a busy Carrum street.

A dangerous driver who loves to smoke up his tyres has faced court again over a string of hoon, drug and ammunition-related crimes.

Stephen Scordo told his pals to block traffic so he could do a burnout in his Holden Statesman – which he describes as “a menace of society” - because he was annoyed a car meet wasn’t to his liking.

The Hallam 25-year-old apprentice mechanic was also caught with shotgun cartridges and drugs after cops raided his Hallam home.

And the reckless road rule rogue had ice and cannabis in his car and was nabbed driving while off his head on meth.

He faced Dandenong Magistrates’ Court again on Wednesday after earlier pleading guilty to driving, drug, weapons, court order and bail breach charges.

The court heard Scordo had been to a car meet on January 23 this year, but didn’t enjoy it.

After leaving the event he drove his car to Carrum and he stopped on the side of a busy street.

His pal in another car and a mate on a motorbike then stopped their vehicles in the middle of the road.

They blocked traffic while Scordo pulled a sideways skid, smoking his tyres while fishtailing for a few seconds before driving off with his friends following behind.

His passenger had filmed the show, but cops found the video and used it as evidence against him.

When he was arrested he told police he had attended a car meet which he described as “s***”, so thought “I’ll do a burnout”.

He said he knew there were people around and he was a “f***head” for doing what he did.

Six weeks later drug cops raided Scordo’s mother’s home, where he had been staying, and found two shotgun rounds, bags of ice, empty deal bags and scales.

In March he was caught drug driving in Officer, and in June police found him with ice and cannabis in his car when filling up at a Narre Warren servo.

Scordo was on community corrections orders and bail at the time.

Defence lawyer Anna Balmer told a previous court hearing her client had PTSD and mental health issues that were fuelled by the grief of losing loved ones.

She said he “self-medicated” with drugs which then led him to engage “in reckless behaviour” and “impulsive decision-making”.

At the last hearing police applied to have the Holden Statesman, which they valued at $1000, forfeited and destroyed.

Scordo laughed at that appraisal with his lawyer saying he believed it was worth $24,000.

But he wasn’t chuckling when the magistrate granted the application and the car was handed over to the Crown.

Magistrate Julie O’Donnell said he had already been given three community corrections orders, which he had failed, so the option of a fourth was “nonsense”.

She said instead she would be sentencing him to a term of imprisonment.

Scordo sighed and looked despondent as he was jailed for a total of six months, minus 62 days he had already served.