Three men have been fined, given suspended sentences or handed community orders after commiting burglaries in Lancashire.
The cases were all heard in December.
One man was even ordered to pay a hefty sum of £510 after stealing an £11.99 bottle of wine from a shop.
Simon Cooper, 51, pleaded guilty to the offence of burglary at Preston Magistrates Court on December 27.
The court heard how Cooper, of Water Street, Lancaster, entered Varna Bulgaria in Lancaster on Boxing Day and stole a quantum bottle of wine to the value of £11.99.
He was made subject to a community order and told to carry out 20 days of rehabilitation activity as well paying a fine of £50 and £460 compensation to the shop.
He was ordered to pay the full balance by January 10.
Preston Magistrates also heard how 51-year-old Ernest Cotton, pleaded guilty to burglary after stealing perfume gift sets to the value of £350 from a Savers store in Preston on September 5 2021.
Cotton, of West Cliff, Preston, had entered Savers as a trespasser before stealing the high value items.
He pleaded guilty to the offences, which he committed while he was on bail, and was handed a six week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and ordered to comply with alcohol treatment for six months.
He was placed on curfew for eight weeks and was told to complete 15 days rehabilitation activity.
Cotton was also sentenced to 24 weeks suspended for 12 months for an offence committed between October 14 and October 17 where outside the Bull and Royal pub on Church Street in Preston he had a knife in his possession.
He pleaded guilty to this offence and was handed an overal sentence of 30 weeks suspended for 12 months.
Cotton was also ordered to pay a fine totalling £213.
On Tuesday December 7 at Preston Magistrates Court Callum Fitzpatrick, 33, was also handed a community order for burglary.
Fitzpatrick, of St Michaels Road, Preston, entered as a trespasser a building, namely a shed on Charnock Street, on September 5 2020 and stole food items of an unknown value.
The court also heard he stole two drills, cases of beer and one set of garden lights of a value unknown on the same day.
He pleaed guilty to the offences and was ordered to undertake drug rehabilitation for nine months and complete 35 days of rehabilitation activity.
He was also told to pay £100 by December 21.
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