A Ballarat woman who threatened police officers with a syringe she said was infected with HIV has pleaded guilty.
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Belinda Frampton, 44, appeared via video link at the Ballarat Magistrates Court on Tuesday to be sentenced.
Police prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Simon Pearce told the court on March 7 last year, the guilty woman entered BWS on Sturt Street and put $117.50 worth of Jim Beam in a black bag, captured on CCTV.
On October 13 at 6.12pm, police responded to multiple 000 calls from the accused, who was in the car park of the Flying Horse Bistro.
Senior Constable Peace said she was "belligerent, argumentative and abusive" to police and refused to remove her hand from her handbag. Earlier in the day she had threatened to stab police with a HIV-infected needle.
She was sprayed with capsicum spray, before running to the bistro, when a security guard stopped her. A needle was in her hand.
After being arrested, Frampton punched an officer in the groin in the cells, before trying to bite him.
On October 28, Senior Constable Peace said the woman smashed a rear window at a house on Macarthur Street and gained entry, before ransacking all the rooms but one. The victim returned home to find Frampton aggressive and "holding a pair of scissors".
When police arrived, the accused had moved to the front porch and was "rambling incoherently about body parts, and appeared drug affected".
Defence lawyer Simon Matt McLellan asked for Frampton's pre-sentence detention to be taken into account for the offences.
"She has been utilising time in custody productively by undertaking drug screens and counselling," he said.
Magistrate Lou Hill said Frampton's criminal history was like a "revolving door" as she'd been in and out of prison so many times.
"This other offending is minor, but when she sees police, she assaults, is it alcohol, drugs or both? She's getting a bit old for this," he said.
Frampton was released, with corrections conditions.