Okanagan man’s $300 a day meth habit fueled 9 day auto crime spree: Lawyer
After a series of events that seems torn from a Grand Theft Auto video game, one of Penticton’s prolific offenders will soon hear whether he will be spending another five years in jail.
At the end of his crime spree, it took five officers to finally take Shawcross into custody, where he has been ever since.The spree started on Sept. 15, 2019, when Shawcross and another man broke into a parking area of an apartment building and stole a Honda CRV, which was later recovered in Grand Forks. Shawcross and the other man, who was convicted in his own trial, jimmied open the front door of the lobby before getting into the locked parking area.
That latest theft didn’t last long, as Shawcross ended up crashing the Harley Davidson, and then subsequently attempted to carjack a Good Samaritan before successfully stealing a car from another driver. Both drivers were threatened with an imitation handgun. Reports came in later that afternoon that the vehicle had crashed into a ditch near Okanagan Falls, the driver getting out and stealing another vehicle before driving off.
Shawcross continued to be defiant following his arrest, shouting at officers including explicit and extremely graphic threats to them and their families. “Mister Shawcross was introduced to marijuana at the age of 10, acid at the age of 13, cocaine and crack at 14 and speed at 16,” said Jordan Watt, Shawcross’ lawyer. “With respect to this crime spree, we are dealing with an individual that had been awake for days, an individual that was supporting a $200 to $300 habit of crystal meth per day and was certainly under the influence.”
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