A man accused of stealing more than 1,000 items from museums over a nine-year period in New South Wales will remain on remand after being denied bail.<\/p>\n
Mark Ian Anderson, 45, appeared by video link in\u00a0Wollongong Local Court on Tuesday facing 33 charges relating to break-and-enters in the Illawarra and drug possession.<\/p>\n
Police facts tendered to the court during Mr Anderson’s bail review allege he stole more than 1,000 items, including antiques, from 2014.<\/p>\n
The museums\u00a0included\u00a0Bateman’s Bay Museum, Pioneer Village Museum, Robertson Heritage Railway, Windellama Progress Association Hall, and Milton Millhouse Art Gallery.<\/p>\n
Police allege Mr Anderson stole “irreplaceable heritage items” for his own pleasure.<\/p>\n
“These items are not suitable\u00a0for disposal for financial gain and it is alleged he stole items for his own collection and gratification,” the documents tendered to court said.<\/p>\n
Police arrested Mr Anderson on August 3 and conducted three searches at different properties, including Mr Anderson’s Fishermans Paradise property.<\/p>\n
Three trucks were required to transport the items that were seized.<\/p>\n
Police allegedly discovered wooden replicas of the Robertson railway museum, a model of Robertson railway precinct, two vintage milk containers, World War II\u00a0spotlights and\u00a0a Colt .36 antique pistol.<\/p>\n
Mr Robertson allegedly cut\u00a0through fences and broke padlocks to carry out his “planned and sophisticated” thefts, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Police stated the items held no value due to their age.<\/p>\n
Police also allegedly seized 4.5 kilograms of cannabis and indictable quantities\u00a0of amphetamines.<\/p>\n
Mr Anderson is also accused of stealing power tools, go-karts, motorbikes and a boat from several properties in the Illawarra.<\/p>\n
The court heard officers from Strike Force Hornseywood\u00a0intercepted phone calls in which\u00a0Mr Anderson allegedly told his brother he planned to sell some of the items.<\/p>\n
Defence lawyer Michael Bowe said a $50,000 surety could be offered to the court to guarantee Mr Anderson’s future court appearances.<\/p>\n
Mr Bowe told the court Mr Anderson had suffered lung and back injuries that led to the collapse of his business.<\/p>\n
“His body is falling apart,” Mr Bowe said.<\/p>\n
Mr Bowe told the court Mr Anderson had assisted during bushfires in the region and had helped women and children in domestic violence situations.<\/p>\n
“He’s exceptionally desperate to get his life back together,” Mr Bowe said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He said Mr Anderson had been attacked in prison.<\/p>\n
“He was stood over by five prisoners who took his items \u2014 as a result he’s been put into protective custody in Silverwater,” Mr Bowe said.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Michael Ong denied bail and said the prosecution’s case appeared to be strong.<\/p>\n
Mr Anderson will face\u00a0court again\u00a0on October 3.<\/p>\n
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A man accused of stealing more than 1,000 items from museums over a nine-year period in New South Wales will remain on remand after being denied bail. Key points: Police say three trucks were required to transport the allegedly stolen items seized in raids this year Mark Ian Anderson is also accused of being in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-pioneer-museum"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Kangaroo Valley Voice","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice","push-errors":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}