Drug production and possession, Covid-19 breach among them
A teenager who had drugs posted to her, stole a mountain bike, wrecked a shop and breached lockdown regulations has walked free after appearing in court.
Eighteen-year-old Rosemary Burgess appeared before magistrates at Douglas courthouse via a live video link from the Isle of Man Prison.
She’d previously pleaded guilty to producing cannabis, possessing the class B drug, destroying property, using provoking behaviour, theft and breaching regulations under the Emergency Powers Act.
Prosecution advocate Rebecca Cubbon told the hearing police discovered £1,100 of cannabis bush in a parcel addressed to Burgess on Christmas Eve last year, after Post Office staff reported a suspicious package.
Three days later, police searched her flat after smelling cannabis and found a further £60 worth of the drug.
The hearing was told Burgess turned aggressive, abusing staff and destroying £60 worth of stock in a shop on Bathurst Street in Douglas after being told she was banned from the store.
And on 26 April CCTV footage caught her stealing a mountain bike from a neighbour – a police search found her at a house in Pulrose on 2 May in defiance of lockdown rules.
Magistrates handed her a six-month jail term suspended for 18 months, during which time she’ll be subject to a suspended sentence supervision order.
She was also ordered to pay compensation to her victims and serve 28 days in prison for the Covid offence but was released after the hearing because of time she’d served on remand.
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