Then he refused to get out of the vehicle and reached for something in the console. When police knocked on his window, he took his foot off the brake, rolling into the police cruiser and causing minor damage.
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“The yard manager found it suspicious that people in a brand new car were selling scrap metal and contacted police,” said Burns.Īlso, in February 2021, Anderson was found by police parked at a Clarence Street gas station, slouched over the wheel while the car was running. While his driver’s licence was suspended, Anderson drove while impaired and, in February 2021, was seen driving a new Ford Fusion while trying to sell scrap metal to a recycler. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The stolen items were worth $8,700, assistant Crown attorney Alex Burns told the judge. The thieves later returned with a cargo van and began taking tools and a Nintendo Switch game before setting off an alarm and fleeing. Security alarms were left unarmed and doors propped open.Īt the health clinic, three laptops and a cash box that contained $4,000 to $5,000 were stolen.Īt the car dealership, four Samsung tablets, a laptop and metal items to sell for scrap were stolen. I hope you can do that yourself.”Ĭourt was told that, in spring of 2020, Anderson and an accomplice were tipped off by cleaners working at the places targeted for break-ins. This probation is to keep you away from those businesses you victimized, not to rehabilitate you. “While I appreciate that you don’t seem to prioritize court orders when you’ve been placed on probation in the past, it’s been to help you break this cycle. She also placed him on probation for a year.
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Good sentenced the man to time served of 443 days and ordered him to spend a further 287 days in jail for a two-year sentence, which she called “the least amount of time the court could impose” given the number of charges and “sheer volume” of offences on Anderson’s record. “You now have a five-page record and, no matter how small an offence you commit, it’s pretty much always going to open the door to jail.” “You need to handle this addiction better than you have been,” Ontario Court Justice Colette Good told Anderson. Michael Henry Anderson, 33, pleaded guilty to 11 offences over the course of a year, with the most serious being break-ins at a West Street health clinic and a Lynden Road car dealership.