The family of Crocodile Dundee hero Paul Hogan made a last-minute trip to Australia to save the Hollywood star’s drug-addicted grandson from jail while he appeared in court.
Jake Paul Hogan, 34, was being sentenced for breaking into apartment blocks “to feed his high-level drug addiction” and breaching a restrained violence order protecting a woman he allegedly terrorized.
His father, Todd Hogan, who lives in New Zealand, flew to attend the hearing with Jake’s sister at Sydney’s Downing Center Local Court on Wednesday.
And the international race for mercy won over the judge in the case, who allowed Hogan to be released from jail after being held without bail since March 13.
The movie legend’s troubled grandson wiped a tear from his eye and sobbed softly after being told he could be released later Wednesday afternoon.
During the hearing, Deputy Magistrate Sharon Freund told Jake’s father and sister to move to a part of the court where they could be seen by Jake, who was appearing via AVL from prison.
MCD Freund said she was more inclined to release Jake from behind bars because of the family’s show of force and Todd Hogan’s promise to return and live in Australia while his son served a community order.
Hollywood star Todd Hogan and his daughter outside court after managing to free Crocodile Dundee legend’s drug-addicted grandson from jail.
A magistrate praised Todd Hogan for flying to help his drug-addicted son and said because of the support she was willing to release Jake Hogan immediately from prison.
“I think it’s enormous that you have your father here,” the chief magistrate said. “He totally has the opportunity to change his life.”
“This is a young man who needs a scaffold.”
Looking very thin with a beard, mustache and very short hair, Hogan kept his head bowed for most of the hearing.
The magistrate said the 34-year-old did not have much of a previous criminal record.this sudden escalation of crimes.
The former dealer was being sentenced for breaking into apartment blocks “to feed his high-level drug addiction” and for breaching an apprehended violence order against a woman he allegedly terrorized.
“He is now sober and essentially has support in the community. I would be willing to issue an ICO (Intensive Correctional Order),” Ms Freund said.
‘He has spent 57 days in custody… showed remorse by pleading guilty early and showed awareness of his drug problems.
‘I note that at the time of this offensive life had been particularly difficult for you and that you had fallen into a spiral of drug use, were homeless and had difficulty seeing the light at the end of the tunnel from the hole in which you found yourself. found.
‘Dad was having difficulty contacting you Mr Hogan, you are very lucky to have support, Dad prepared to stay here in Sydney.
“To rest assured, today you will be released from prison.”
After softly saying ‘thank you’, Jake Hogan began to cry silently.
He was sentenced to a nine-month ICO for two counts of goods in custody, one count of contravening a detained violence order and one count each of theft and possession of burglary implements.
He was ordered to attend rehabilitation and counseling and to abstain from alcohol and drugs.
The magistrate sternly warned him that if he breached the conditions of his ICO, he could go back to jail, “and nobody wants that.”
Todd Hogan will be able to collect his son from the prison, believed to be the Silverwater Remand Center in western Sydney.
Todd, one of Paul Hogan’s five children with his much-loved first wife, Noelene, did the mercy of returning to Australia just a few days ago from New Zealand, where he lives with his second wife.
Jake Hogan, the grandson of Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, is to be released from prison after being sentenced for robberies committed after he got out of control with drugs.
Jake Paul Hogan, above with his father Todd Hogan. Todd made a successful mercy trip from New Zealand to attend Jake’s sentencing hearing.
Previously, Jake had a nice house, a car, a steady job, and a girlfriend he hoped to marry.
But he became a homeless drug addict, sleeping in abandoned buildings and stealing clothes and bicycles to sell.
He lost his friends and became estranged from his family, and every day he rode his bike for hours on ice, making tearful phone calls to the few people who hadn’t abandoned him.
A former acquaintance revealed that Jake was traumatized by a family tragedy that occurred long before he was jailed for threatening a woman and stealing to fund his drug addiction.
Jake’s mother, Marie, had suffered a “very sad” deterioration in the weeks before her death from multiple sclerosis when Jake was 17 in 2006.
After her death, Paul Hogan rushed out of California, where he lived with his second wife Linda Kozlowski and their young son, Chance, to attend his daughter-in-law’s funeral.
Todd eventually remarried registered nurse Jane, and Jake remained in Sydney and seemed to lead a normal and largely guilt-free life until he began a relationship with a young mother named Rachel Young.
Jake had some substance abuse problems, but when his relationship broke down and his hopes of having his own family disappeared, he “became seriously addicted to drugs which completely took over his life.”
Jake is the grandson of Hollywood celebrity Paul Hogan, whose breakout role as Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee (above) earned him a Golden Globe award and made him millions.
Jake as a child with his mother Marie and father Todd around 1990. Tragedy struck the family when Marie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and died from the disease in 2006.
Jake was caught earlier this year on what police described as “high quality CCTV” breaking into different luxury blocks after “brazenly loitering” outside.
According to a police statement of facts, Jake could clearly be seen breaking into an apartment block in the inner Sydney suburb of Pyrmont.
Police later found him carrying Trojan brand wire cutters, a black torch, Allen wrenches and an adjustable wrench.
Jake also breached a domestic violence order detained five days after a woman kicked him out and texted him the word “DOG” while he was at Prince of Wales Hospital.
The woman then received 42 more calls from different pay phones over four hours while she was in her hospital bed with him, either “crying on the phone… or getting very angry and yelling.”
Jake Hogan had been in prison on denied bail since March (believed to be Silverwater Jail) but will be released this afternoon.
Jake Hogan is “a good person with a very kind, good personality and a supportive family,” but ice addiction and homelessness turned him into a desperate man.
Instead of working in his chosen trade, courts have heard how Jake carried break-in tools and lingered outside posh apartment blocks looking for opportunities to steal.
An acquaintance of Jake’s said that he “wasn’t a bad person, but he had completely lost himself.” He has never gotten over the death of his mother. He then he has real abandonment issues.
“He’s actually a good person with a very kind personality and a supportive family,” the person said.
“He was still very upset about his mother’s death. ‘He never got over it because he never processed it properly.’
Paul Hogan, seen with second wife Linda Kozlowski in 2013, made his own return to Australia in 2006 when Jake’s mother Marie died of multiple sclerosis.
