"NASTY" was a magistrate's description of a drug addict's theft of a wedding ring and other items from an elderly dementia sufferer who she had tricked into helping her.
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Kaitlyn Louise Brown, 22, committed many of her crimes in company and played a smaller part in a gang's statewide crime spree.
The Hobart woman was jailed in the Launceston Magistrates Court on Thursday after she pleaded guilty to 16 offences, mostly of dishonesty.
Brown had also breached a three-month suspended sentence imposed in November 2014 for 12 months for her role in a gang's heist of chainsaws worth more than $11,700 from an Invermay business.
She also breached community service orders with 82 hours outstanding.
Magistrate Simon Brown activated Brown's three-month suspended sentence, backdated to November 5, and cumulatively imposed six months' jail for her new offending, with two months of that term suspended for two years.
Brown's role in a crime spree which hit locations including Sandy Bay, Spreyton, Sheffield and Devonport, started in January and ended in late June.
She admitted her part in the $2500 damage caused to a stolen car, the theft of goods worth more than $4000 and the stealing of a significant quantity of cash.
Mr Brown condemned as "nasty" Brown's theft, with a female co-offender, of personal items from the home of an elderly woman, who had dementia or Alzheimer's, after they tricked the woman into helping them and requested a drink of water.
Brown was also disqualified from driving for four months, fined $350 and ordered to complete a 12-month probation order upon release.
Co-offender Samantha Dawn Leslie, 23, of Launceston, who played a bigger role in the criminal gang's raft of offending which stretched from the North to the South, was jailed last week for two years.