A SWANHAVEN man who has already served jail time for a string of break and enters in the southern Shoalhaven has been placed on an intensive correction order.
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Daniel Peter McDonald, 34, was arrested in January 2017 after police executed a search warrant on a Swanhaven property, south east of Sussex Inlet, in which a number of stolen items were found.
Earlier that month Shoalhaven Police Target Action Group (TAG) officers had started investigations into a series of break and enter offences within the area.
As a result of the investigation, police attended the Springs Avenue home and spoke to McDonald and found a number of items including two rifles, a revolver, ammunition, cannabis, methylamphetamine and a sum of cash.
Police alleged McDonald broke into homes at St Georges Basin, Sanctuary Point and Berrara and a caravan at Cudmirrah between December 2016 and January 2017.
In some instances people were in the properties at the time.
McDonald faced a number of charges including five counts of aggravated break and enter, possessing unauthorised firearms and supplying prohibited drugs.
He appeared in Parramatta District Court on October 10 before Judge Siobhan Herbert.
McDonald was sentenced to an aggregate jail term of two years and eight months from January 2017, with a non-parole period of two years, on two counts of aggravated break and enter to commit a serious indictable offence and break and enter a house.
With time already served, McDonald had been released.
However, on two further counts of aggravated break and enter to commit a serious indictable offence, two counts of possessing an unauthorised firearm and possessing an unauthorised pistol, Judge Herbert placed him on a three-year intensive correction order from October 10, 2019.
McDonald can serve his sentence in the community rather than behind bars, but must not commit any offences while on the order and must submit to the supervision of Community Corrections.
He was also placed on a 12-month conditional release order, which replace good behaviour bonds, for two counts of supplying prohibited drugs. He was also found guilty of driving with an illegal drug present in his blood, but no conviction was recorded.
A number of other charges were taken into consideration in his sentencing.
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