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The man stole to pay for a drug habit begun when an injury got him on painkillers.
He stole perfume online mens and womens fragrances and
perfume to support a drug habit that started when an on-the-job injury led to an addiction to painkillers.
Tomasz Teterycz, 27, of cheap perfume London paid the price yesterday for a month of shoplifting. Justice John Getliffe of the Ontario court of justice sentenced him to 30 days in jail on four theft charges.
under the perfume shop sentencing formula used in Ontario courts.
mens fragrance valued at nearly $500 from the Real Canadian Superstore on Oxford Street.
The next day, he was caught stealing two bottles of womens perfume valued at $127 from gucci perfume the Bay store at Masonville Place.
On april 18, he was caught stealing a DVD player valued at just under $40 from the Wal-Mart store on Clarke Road.
cologne for men and three containers of womens perfume from the perfume Zellers Inc. store on Commissioners Road.
all the stolen merchandise was recovered by the stores. On three occasions, Teterycz was found to have no money with him when he was caught. The fourth time, he had $2.50 in his pocket.
Defence lawyer Richard Braiden said discount perfume his Polish-born client, who lives in London with his mother, had never been in trouble with the law until he was injured on the job at a metal-working company.
While being treated for the injury, Teterycz became addicted womens perfume to painkillers, said Braiden. Later, he developed an addiction to cocaine.
Teterycz was enrolled in one drug treatment angel perfume program but it didnt solve his problem, Braiden told Getliffe.
Hes now seeking to enter a more rigorous perfume bottle residential program at a treatment centre near Guelph.
Getliffe sentenced Teterycz to 30 days on each of the four free perfume sample charges, to be served concurrently.
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