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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
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From dead phone battery to resisting arrest charge after church break-in

Newcastle courthouse. File picture

A MAN who broke into and trashed an Adamstown church while drunk, then violently resisted arrest when police arrived at the scene, has been convicted and given a two-year good behaviour bond.

Magistrate Janine Lacy sentenced Jarrod James McKinnley in Newcastle Local Court on Thursday afternoon, after the court heard the 30-year-old broke into the Live Free Church at Adamstown on the evening of March 23, broke several pot plants and threw sheet music all over the place.

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