A recent parolee who boasted about having weapons inside his home and said he was ready to "go to war" during a tense stand-off with police at Dapto last year has been jailed for at least 20 months.
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Aaron Patrick Biggs was high on prescription drugs and alcohol and only freshly out of jail when he began ranting to the triple zero operator who answered an emergency call about a violent domestic dispute at the house on the evening of October 28.
Biggs told the operator he had guns and Samurai swords at his disposal and claimed he'd "booby-trapped" the home in case police came to arrest him.
The operator said Biggs had not made the call himself but had commandeered the phone before making a number of threats including that he planned to "die in the house".
"I will not go down without a fight 'cause I'm over it and don't care about authority or police officers, they are f--king dogs," he yelled.
"I will not be going anywhere, I'm going to war. I have two shot guns and two Glocks and a duffle bag with 1500 rounds and armour-piercing bullets."
Police set up a perimeter around the home and eventually confronted Biggs in a nearby park. Biggs pulled out a large kitchen knife and tried to advance on the officers, who drew their guns and ordered him to the ground.
Biggs only gave up when the police dog approached him however he resisted police efforts to handcuff him and load him into the back of a paddy wagon.
Biggs was taken to Lake Illawarra Police Station, charged and remanded in custody.
He subsequently pleaded guilty to being armed with intent, resisting police and contravening a domestic violence order during a court appearance last week.
At the time, defence lawyer Tyrone Phillips said Biggs had had a traumatic and deprived childhood that included drug use from an early age.
"He needs a proper psychological evaluation and treatment," he said.
"He had no specific memory of the incident until four days later because of his drug and alcohol use."
On Friday, Magistrate Mark Douglass sentenced Biggs to 30 months' jail, with a non-parole period of 20 months on account of the seriousness of what he said would have been a "frightening episode" to both witness and be involved in.
"These are serious examples of these offences - a considerable amount of police recourse were utilised at considerable inconvenience to the public," he said.
"In my view the community and the police need to be protected and there needs to be a deterrent sentence."