A homeless man was sentenced to three months and ten days in prison after he admitted two separate counts of drug equipment possession and breaking and entering.

Crown counsel Larissa Burgess told Magistrates' Court Police came across Stephen Mills on Court Street on March 20.

The officers discovered the 48-year-old had a glass bottle with a hole in one side and burned wire mesh in the opening.

According to Ms Burgess, Mills started acting suspiciously and began "frantically looking around" once he saw Police.

When the officers approached him he reached into his pocket and dropped the bottle to the ground in an attempt to discard it, she said.

The bottle was collected and sent to a Government analyst. It tested positive for cocaine.

Ms Burgess said that Mills has a history of similar convictions.

In a separate incident, Police responded to a burglar alarm at C-Travel on Reid Street on Good Friday.

They found a glass door had been smashed in and, on entering, discovered Mills hiding under a conference room table.

Asked by officers why he was in the building, Mills said: "I am tired and I am just going to go to sleep". After further questioning by Police, Mills claimed that the door was already broken and that he entered the premises to "just see what I could find".

Mills was represented by duty counsel Leo Mills. The lawyer indicated that his client was under the influence of drugs during both incidents and that he has an "unhappy history" of similar offences relating to drugs and break-ins.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner also acknowledged Mills' history of convictions.

Citing past suspended sentences and probations he said: "What do I do with Mr. Mills? Send him back to prison? He has a long record of wandering around town and breaking into people's businesses and he is still on probation from a conviction in 2008."

Mr. Warner handed Mills a three-month prison sentence for breaking and entering at C-Travel and a ten-day sentence, to run concurrently, for possession of the drug pipe.