A man who stole $10,000 worth of cowboy hats from a Hunter store has been sentenced to a 14-month Intensive Correction Order and ordered to pay compensation to the shop he robbed.
Christopher Wayne Fullerton, of Tamworth, was directed to pay $10,527 to Marsh Saddlery at Scone, where he used a wheelie bin to steal more than 100 hats in the early hours of October 27 last year.
Hunter Valley Police District investigators arrested Fullerton near Tamworth about three weeks after the theft.
He has pleaded guilty to one count of break and enter, stealing items of a value less than $60,000.
Fullerton's sentence was handed down in Muswellbrook Local Court on Monday.
The Intensive Correction Order is recorded as a jail term served in the community, under the supervision of a Community Corrections Officer.
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