An Alberta man has been sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to 54 charges, including a string of break and enters, over the span of seven months.

Ryan Wesley Christie's crimes stretched across western Canada, including Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and finally the Yukon, where he was arrested in Watson Lake last March.

Eighty-five stolen items were taken from Christie when he was arrested, territorial court Heino Lilles said in his written decision released last week.

The 31-year-old was sentenced in October.

His string of charges include multiple counts of break and enter and possession of stolen property.

The crime spree started about one year after Christie completed a 20-day residential treatment program at the Northern Addictions Centre in Grande Prairie, Alta., for a cocaine addiction, the judge said.

Lilles noted that most of the property crime was committed to feed a relapse in that addiction.

On March 17, 2012, Watson Lake RCMP received a complaint from the Help and Hope Women's Shelter that a suspicious vehicle was parked behind their building.

Police attended and determined that the empty vehicle had been stolen.

An opened collector's coin set was visible inside.

According to an agreed statement of facts, Christie was found near the shelter, and matched a description given by witnesses.

The Fox Creek, Alta. man was arrested for possession of the stolen vehicle.

When he was arrested, police found a 20-cent and a 50-cent coin, something RCMP found suspicious given the denomination.

That same day, the local post office reported a break-in. Collector's coins and other items were taken from the post office, the statement says.

The safe inside the post office was also broken into and extensive damage had been done to the walls where Christie had cut through them to gain entry to the post office and its various rooms, the safe, and doors, the court was told.

Inbound and outbound mail and packages had been opened and rifled through.

Two display cases which had held collectable coins were destroyed, as was the safe.

Police, looking at the contents in the back of the stolen vehicle, saw numerous new chainsaws and other tools.

They believed the tools may have come from the Northern Industrial Sales store in Watson Lake, which had been freshly broken into.

Chainsaws and other tools that were taken matched items in the back of the stolen vehicle.

At the time of Christie's arrest in Watson Lake, he had numerous arrest warrants out of Fox Creek, Calgary and Edmonton.

One of those warrants was for the theft of the vehicle involved in these crimes.

Items and identification in the back of the vehicle were found to have been stolen from a series of break-ins around western Canada.

The 13-page agreed statement of facts lists multiple other situations where Christie was found in possession of stolen property.

In one case, On Sept. 6, 2011, Calgary Police Services arrested Christie with a number of DVDs which had been stolen from a break and enter the month before.

That same month, Christie was identified as having pawned stolen items from a separate break-in.

In another case, On Jan. 1, 2012, RCMP in Fox Creek were called out to a break and enter in that community that occurred over the weekend.

Christie was later arrested in possession of the stolen items.

Three weeks later, an officer with of the Whitecourt Traffic Unit saw a vehicle speeding down the highway.

He attempted to pull the vehicle over.

The driver did not stop and the officer had to stop the pursuit. A few minutes later, the vehicle was found turned over in a ditch, the statement says.

Two passersby who saw the accident identified Christie, who was standing nearby, as the driver. He fled but was found hiding nearby.

The stolen vehicle was severely damaged in the rollover.

In his sentencing, Lilles acknowledged that the two-year incarceration is at the low end of the range.

The judge said he was considering the savings that Christie's guilty pleas meant for the judicial systems in the four jurisdictions.

Given the time he has already spent behind bars since his arrest, Christie has about 11 months left on his sentence.