A crack cocaine addiction-driven crime spree has been halted with the arrest and conviction of Robyn Davis, 48, of Windsor. The Sudbury Star reported that Davis pleaded guilty to 18 charges in a string of property crimes.

Justice Randall Lalande of the Ontario Court of Justice heard the charges against Davis, which began with the theft of two bottles of alcohol from a Liquor Control Board of Ontario store. The next step was to defraud a friend with a bad check he had deposited into his account in exchange for $500 cash which he gave to Davis.

Davis told the mentally challenged gentleman she would be his girlfriend in exchange for $400. When he readily agreed, she told him a good boyfriend would give her another $400. Once again, he did not deny her request.

A couple who had offered Davis a place to stay found her unwilling to repay a $130 loan and that she had stolen a credit card from their home and used it to purchase more than $1,000 worth of merchandise.

Crimes committed by Davis continue in much the same pattern. According to assistant Crown attorney Guy Roy, Davis has a minimum of 40 convictions for fraud and related offenses and another eight for failing to appear in court.

Davis’s lawyer tried to paint a picture of the defendant as someone who has dealt with a hard life. Part Cherokee, part African-American and part Caucasian, Davis left home at an early age due to a bad environment. She became pregnant at 17 and today is a grandmother of two. She has attempted several times to overcome her crack cocaine habit without success.

This was "a serious and important case," said Justice Lalande as he handed down a nine-month sentence. "It is serious because of the number of charges and important because it involves a person who has had a series of issues in her background."