A DRUG addict was caught by gardaí after he took a photograph of himself on a phone he had stolen, which he then left in a house he tried to burgle.
Jason Glennon (34) stole the pink Nokia phone and a rucksack from an unlocked car in the Blanchardstown area in Dublin. He had been released from prison the previous day having served a sentence for a similar offence.
He then broke into a nearby house, where the owner awoke to find him in the bedroom. The man chased Glennon out of the house, and the burglar threw a PlayStation games console at him as he was running away.
In his haste, he dropped the rucksack and phone and was arrested the following month after his photograph was found on the phone. Garda Laura Kelly confirmed to Judge Patrick McCartan that Glennon took the photograph.
Glennon, of Whitestown Avenue, Mulhuddart, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to three burglaries in the Blanchardstown area on June 26th, 2010. He had 53 previous convictions, including burglary offences and handling stolen property. The judge described Glennon as a “menace as long as he is in the community and using drugs”.
“It is my duty to protect the community, and the only blunt implement I can use for this purpose is Mountjoy Prison,” he said, before he adjourned the case to March.