A five-month-long crime spree across the Rockingham region has ended in prison for a 35-year-old Shoalwater man.
Kyle John Tasman Smith appeared in Rockingham court last Friday via video call from Hakea to be sentenced for 22 offences committed between September 2025 and January this year.
The charges included stealing motor vehicles, being armed in a way that may cause fear, making threats, possessing stolen property, drug offences, criminal damage, breach of bail and driving without authority.
The court was told Smith had an extensive criminal history, much of which was linked to long-standing substance abuse.
His lawyer said Smith suffered from an intellectual disability and significant temporal lobe dysfunction, which affected his impulse control and consequential thinking, often resulting in very poor decision-making.
Despite this, Magistrate Sarah Oliver found several offences were too serious to warrant anything other than immediate imprisonment.
The court described two incidents in particular, which Ms Oliver said made imprisonment the “only appropriate disposition”.
On January 7, Smith stole four e-scooters from a property, one of which had a GPS tracking device attached.
The scooter’s owner followed the tracker to Smith’s home in Shoalwater, where he confronted Smith and asked him to return the stolen items.
Smith gave the man three scooters, but when asked to hand over the fourth showed off a concealed black item that the victim believed to be a gun and yelled: “I’ll shoot you if you don’t leave”.
Ms Oliver said the incident would have been terrifying for the victim.
On January 11, Smith went to another person’s home on a stolen red motorcycle, displayed an object concealed beneath his shirt and threatened to use a gun before using a tyre iron to cause $500 damage to the victim’s car.
The court was told Smith said “I’ll bury you. I won’t need this gun to bury you”.
Smith was sentenced to a total effective term of eight months imprisonment, with eligibility for parole, backdated to January 11, when he was taken into custody.
Smith was also fined a total of $5400 across the remaining offences, ordered to pay court costs, and disqualified from driving for three months.
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