Career criminal pleads guilty to theft

Sydney Collins

With at least eighteen offences to his name, forty-seven year old Sydney Collins may be described as a criminal by profession. His past charges range from burglary, theft and other crimes of dishonesty to traffic violations and misdemeanors. But for the next two years, Collins will be off the job. He appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie this morning and changed his not guilty plea to a charge of Theft to a guilty one. Considering his rap sheet, Collins would have been sent to jail but because of his health condition, he was fined a thousand dollars and was also bound over to keep the peace for two years in the sum of two thousand dollars. That means that if he gets into any trouble within the next two years, he will automatically be convicted and fined two thousand dollars or spend two years in jail. Collins was detained and charged after he was caught on surveillance camera stealing five cans of Armor All an Esso Gas Station on November twenty-fourth, 2009.