The grandson of Hollywood star Paul Hogan has confessed to a string of crimes in a desperate bid to get one last chance at shaking his uncontrollable ice addiction.
Jake Paul Hogan pleaded guilty to a series of petty crimes on Friday to fast track his case to NSW Drug Court and immediately entered a prison rehabilitation program.
Downing Centre Local Court Magistrate Sharon Freund was told Hogan had taken the Drug Court option to enter the special detox unit, which requires inmates to enter guilty pleas.
Hogan, 34, is hopelessly hooked on meth and will be placed in the Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre at Parklea prison, 40km west of Sydney.
His strict new prison regime will bring a grim new reality where he will have no privacy – even while on the toilet – in his bid to be drug-free and earn his release.
He will spend the next six months in closed detention undergoing therapeutic intervention, then a further six months in semi-open detention.
When eventually released on parole, he will still have to undergo urine analysis three times a week at the Parklea centre.
Specially-designed toilets with windows allow staff to watch the men give their urine sample and ensure they’re not trying to evade detection of drug use.
Crococdile Dundee star Paul Hogan’s once good-looking grandson Jake Hogan (above) looks worse for wear since an alleged return to ice after his release from prison
After agreeing to have his case turned over to the drug court, Jake Hogan is likely to be now in closed detention inside Parklea jail’s Compulsory Drug Treatment Centre (above)
The Drug Court system is designed for prisoners like Hogan, whose offences are directly related to their drug addiction. Violent offenders or armed robbers do not qualify.
While Hogan has been repeatedly caught with vehicle and housebreaking implements, including wire cutters and adjustable wrenches and spanners, he hasn’t been charged with violent offences.
Jake, whose famous grandfather is best known for his legendary Crocodile Dundee films, has had a high number of arrests and breaches since he became hooked on ice three years ago.
His prior charges including custody of a knife in a public place, malicious damage, drug possession, shoplifting, bicycle theft and possessing stolen goods.
He was given a chance at freedom to turn his life around when his father made a mercy dash from New Zealand and a magistrate released Jake into his custody.
But Hogan breached the community order he had been given when his dad Todd flew in from New Zealand and with Jake’s sister Lara pleaded for his release in May.
Jake fell almost straight back onto meth, with photos exclusively obtained by Daily Mail Australia showing the once handsome young carpenter looking skinny and ice-ravaged.
When Jake was freed from Silverwater jail after a mercy dash by his dad Todd, he looked more like his younger self, but fell back into ice within a short time of his release
When he earns his freedom again after about a year of treatment, Jake Hogan will still have to report three times a week back at Parklea where specially-designed toilets with windows (above) allow staff to watch the men give their urine sample
Todd, one of Paul Hogan’s five children with first wife, Noelene, promised to help Jake stick to court-imposed conditions, including abstaining from drugs and alcohol, not committing other offences and appearing in court as required.
After being released from Silverwater prison in May, Hogan went to live with his father at Edgecliff Lodge Motel in Sydney’s east.
But he reportedly snubbed a quiet life of family dinners, preferring instead to meet up with friends for nights out on the town.
Within eight days of his release, police arrested Jake for an earlier alleged theft of a bike and around midnight on July 27, Hogan was arrested again in Glebe in Sydney’s inner west.
He was charged with possession of 1.5g of methamphetamine and also possessing housebreaking implements including an adjustable spanner.
When he failed to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on August 2, Magistrate Clare Farnan issued a warrant for his arrest and police brought him in six days later.
He was charged with another earlier crime – stealing a black Trek Marlin mountain bike, reckless destroying a bike cage fence and entering enclosed lands at Woolloomooloo in February.
He was also charged with shoplifting a Red Bull energy drink and two oat health slices worth a total of $9.60 from Woolworths in July.
The Proactive Crime Unit in Kings Cross also charged him with possessing vehicle breaking implements at Kingsford in June, and he is also charged with contravening an AVO.
By pleading guilty to all charges against him and attending prison rehab while having his case transferred to the drug court, Jake Hogan may earn another chance at getting out of jail, although on very strict conditions.
Jake and his dad Todd in Sydney before the young carpenter allegedly went off the rails on the drug ice and began breaking into premises and stealing bikes
A recent photo of Jake Hogan after his release from prison and allegedly returning to methamphetamine use amid an arrest for several theft and other charges
The former carpenter once had a nice home, car, steady job and a girlfriend he hoped to marry – but his life took a downward spiral earlier this year when the relationship ended.
Jake’s decline is partly blamed on the fact he allegedly never got over the death of his mother, Marie, who suffered from multiple sclerosis and died when Jake was aged 17 in 2006.
In May, Deputy Chief Magistrate 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.
‘This is a young man who needs some scaffolding,’ the magistrate said. ‘He totally has the opportunity to turn his life around.’
Jake’s famous grandfather, who has won the Golden Globe Best Actor in a musical or comedy for his breakout role of Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee in 1987, lives in Los Angeles.
Paul Hogan also has a son, Chance, who he had with second wife, and Crocodile Dundee co-star, Linda Kozlowski, living in the US.
Todd Hogan, the son of Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, and his daughter Lara leave Downing Centre courts after coming to the rescue of Jake, and securing his freedom from jail
Paul Hogan, above with his second wife Linda Kozlowski in 2013, found Hollywood stardom for his role as Crocodile Dundee