A 30-year-old Dubbo man has admitted he went into a woman's home while she was asleep and stole from her.
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Terrence Thomas Hines pleaded guilty to an aggravated break and enter charge after police caught him on the bank of the Macquarie River on September 25 last year.
Court documents revealed Hines went into a home on Wollomombi Avenue sometime between midnight and 4am on September 20.
A woman who lived there fell asleep on the lounge and left all the doors unlocked.
Before she fell asleep the woman put a mobile phone and iPad on top of a pink handbag that was located near her feet.
At 4am the woman said she woke to find her belongings were gone.
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The front door of the house and rear glass sliding door had also been opened.
Court documents revealed that between 2am and 4am on the same morning, a woman's wallet and belongings were stolen from a vehicle on Apsley Crescent.
In that same street, on the same morning, another woman's car was also broken into and a wallet was stolen.
At about 4am that morning police saw Hines in a car being driven along Champagne Drive.
Shortly afterwards, the car was pulled over by police on Baird Drive.
According to court documents, Hines was a passenger in the car which was being driven by a woman.
He grabbed a handbag - that turned out to be one that was stolen hours earlier - and attempted to conceal it under the front passenger seat.
The woman lunged towards the driver's seat and attempted to turn the ignition key.
Hines, who police suspected was affected by drugs, ran across the road and jumped a fence.
Police searched the vehicle and found various stolen items from the Wollomombi Avenue home and vehicles on Apsley Crescent.
After a short foot pursuit, police arrested Hines on the bank of the Macquarie River on September 25.
His case was mentioned in the Dubbo District Court last Friday.
Judge John North set October 11 down as the date Hines will be sentenced.
In the 12 months to March 2019, 600 homes were broken into in the Dubbo Regional Council area, data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research revealed.
That's a slight increase on the 581 break and enters reported in the previous 12 months.
