be sentenced next month.

Tio Weeks, presently of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the dental office of Vincent Bridgewater on January 4.

Junior Crown Counsel Veronica Gordon told Magistrates' Court Weeks climbed through a smashed door window of the office and removed $714.20 worth of cheques and cash.

Weeks also pleaded guilty last week to stealing a purse with some $1,000 in cash from his girlfriend's mother.

But moments later he removed just $400 and returned the purse when confronted by his girlfriend.

And when he was arrested by Police Weeks admitted using the money to support his cocaine and heroin addiction.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis remanded Weeks in custody until the presentation of a social inquiry report, expected by March 10.

SHOPLIFTER EARNS EXTRA PRIOSN TIME CTS Shoplifter earns extra prison time Stealing four cans of cashew nuts led to ten more days of prison for a 40-year-old shoplifter.

On Friday Twilton Wayne Smith, currently imprisoned at the Westgate Correctional Facility on separate matters, pleaded guilty to the offence in Magistrates' Court.

Junior Crown Counsel Veronica Gordon told the court staff at the Hayward's Supermarket in Warwick observed Smith place four cans of nuts inside his jacket on December 29.

He then left the building without paying.

However, a staff member brought the man back into the building and summoned the Police.

But he reportedly told Police: "I only took one (of the cans). Where did you get all those cans from?'' The total value of the nuts was $33.72, but Smith had only $8.60 in his possession.

MAN JILED FOR SWALLWING EVIDENCE CTS Man jailed for swallowing evidence A 43-year-old homeless man last week pleaded guilty to obstructing Police -- by reportedly swallowing drugs evidence.

Junior Crown Counsel Veronica Gordon told Magistrates' Court Police officers saw Wayne Albert Hanley in the parking lot between Court and Union Streets on January 22.

When officers approached the man he quickly walked away, jumped up the northern side of the lot and into a second floor door.

He then locked the door and remained inside for a few minutes before exiting the same door and surrendering himself.

"It's gone. I had a rock, but I swallowed it,'' he reportedly told Police.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis ordered Hanley to pay a $200 fine or serve 14 days in prison.