yesterday received a 12-month suspended jail sentence.

Tyari Shaune Harvey, 23, of Sylvan Dell Road, Ord Road, pleaded guilty to attempting to break and enter on May 24, and also stealing between May 24 and 25.

Crown counsel Cindy Clarke told Magistrates' Court that Police responded to an alarm at the Everrich Jewellery Store on Reid Street around 4.50 a.m.

When Police arrived, they saw the main display window had been smashed.

Nothing had been taken, however.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner heard that after Harvey had demolished the glass, he broke into a home in Warwick, where he stole $20 in change, a pair of pants, a shirt, shoes and a cellular phone worth $257.

Police arrested Harvey after they analysed debris from the smashed jewellery store glass.

While in Police custody, he admitted the theft as well as breaking the glass.

Harvey told Mr. Warner: "I didn't attempt to rob the place. I hit the window because I had been drinking and I was stressed.'' He told Mr. Warner that he stole the items because he had experienced hard times after being released from Westgate Correctional Facility in April.

Mr. Warner gave Harvey two consecutive six-month prison terms, suspended for two years.

"This is a chance for you to get it together,'' he said. "You do this foolishness again, I'll send you back to prison.''