A woman who stole a ceramic owl from someone's letterbox smashed it on the ground when police confronted her.
Emily Jane Frater was with her adult daughter on October 14 when she swiped the courier package from the letterbox, which a neighbour saw her doing.
When approached by police, she threw the package on the ground, breaking it, and became abusive towards the officers, kicking out at them.
On October 20 she was at it again, taking three pairs of pants into the changing rooms at Best for Less and ripping off the security tags. On October 25, Frater was in Mitre 10 Mega and snatched a smoke alarm and thermal heat detector, hiding them in her bag while paying for other items at the counter.
Frater set off the alarms as she walked out of the store, so returned inside and gave security her bag. As she was leaving again, the alarms went off once more.