A man found to have breached his probation for a fifth time has been sentenced to 142 days in jail.
Eric Joseph Heidemann was issued the sentence by Judge Michael Brecknell in Prince George provincial court on Tuesday.
Heidemann has been serving one-year probation from a June 2010 conviction related to a theft of firearms from an Ogilvie Street home in November 2009. He had also been sentenced to 18 months in jail but the term was reduced by 14 months and five days for time already served.
In November 2010, Heidemann was sentenced to 22 days in jail for a breach committed in September 2010, and in May 2011, he was sentenced to 90 days in jail for three counts, two committed in March, 2011 and one in April, 2011. committed in
Heidemann's original sentence was for one count each of possession of a weapon obtained through an offence, possession of stolen property under $5,000, careless use of a firearm, occupying a vehicle in which there is a firearm and two counts of improper storage of a firearm.
Heidemann, who originally faced 18 charges, was also issued a lifetime firearms prohibition.
He has two previous convictions for possession of stolen property under $5,000. In April 2008 he was sentenced to one day in jail but had credit for 144 days time served and in February 2009 he was sentenced to three months in jail.
