The grandson of Hollywood star Paul Hogan is back in jail after police allegedly caught him with illegal drugs following alleged petty theft and shoplifting.
Daily Mail Australia has obtained exclusive photographs of once-handsome Jake Paul Hogan, looking thin and emaciated from the ice before police arrested him on a warrant.
The 34-year-old is now behind bars at Parklea Prison, having swapped a comfortable bed at a city motel for a cell at the infamous western Sydney correctional facility.
Hogan had been released on a community order after his father, Todd, travelled with Jake’s sister, Lara, from New Zealand to appeal for his release in May.
He promised to help Jake comply with the conditions imposed by the court, including abstaining from drugs and alcohol, not committing other crimes, and appearing in court as required.
But eight days after his release, police arrested Jake for an alleged previous theft of a bicycle.
And shortly before midnight on July 27, Hogan was arrested again in Glebe, in Sydney’s inner west.
He was charged with possession of 1.5 grams of methamphetamine and also with possession of burglary instruments, including a wrench.
Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan’s once handsome grandson Jake Hogan (above) is looking worse for wear since supposedly returning to the ice after being released from prison
When Jake was released from Silverwater Jail after his father Todd bailed him out of compassion, he looked more like his younger self.
Hogan was ordered to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on August 2, but Magistrate Clare Farnan issued a warrant for his arrest when he failed to appear.
He was arrested six days later and charged with a previous offence: stealing a black Trek Marlin mountain bike, recklessly destroying a bicycle fence and trespassing on closed land in Woolloomooloo in February.
He was also accused of stealing a Red Bull energy drink and two portions of health porridge worth $9.60 from Woolworths in July.
The Kings Cross Proactive Crime Unit also charged him with possession of vehicle braking tools in Kingsford in June, and he is also charged with contravening an AVO.
After being released from Silverwater Prison in May, Hogan went to live with his father. at Edgecliff Lodge Motel in Sydney’s east.
But Hogan reportedly rejected a quiet life of family dinners, preferring to meet up with friends for nights out.
Jake and his father Todd in Sydney before the young carpenter allegedly went off the rails dealing drugs and began breaking into shops and stealing bikes.
A recent photo of Jake Hogan after his release from prison and allegedly returning to methamphetamine use amid an arrest on several robbery and other charges.
The former carpenter once had a nice house, a car, a steady job and a girlfriend he hoped to marry, but his life took a downward turn earlier this year when the relationship ended.
Jake’s father, Todd, is one of Paul Hogan’s five children with his first wife, Noelene.
The famous grandfather, who won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his breakout role as Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee in 1987, lives in Los Angeles.
Paul Hogan also faced adversity with his son, Chance, whom he had with his second wife and Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski.
Todd Hogan, son of Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, and his daughter Lara leave the Downing Centre courts after coming to Jake’s rescue and securing his release from jail.
Paul Hogan, pictured with his second wife Linda Kozlowski in 2013, rose to Hollywood stardom for his role as Crocodile Dundee.
Jake’s decline is partly due to the fact that he supposedly never got over the death of his mother, Marie, who suffered from multiple sclerosis and died when Jake was 17 in 2006.
Todd Hogan eventually remarried registered nurse Jane, and the couple lives in New Zealand while Jake remained in Sydney.
In May, Associate Magistrate Judge Sharon Freund told Todd Hogan and Jake’s sister, Lara, that she was more inclined to release Jake from behind bars because of the family’s show of strength.
“He is a young man who needs some support,” the judge said. “He has the opportunity to change his life.”
The judge gave him a stern warning that if he breached the conditions of his intensive correction order, he could go back to jail, “and nobody wants that.”
Jake Hogan is set to return to court, via AVL from prison, on August 28. If convicted and sentenced, he could face several years in prison.
