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Article: Man with cash register run over
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- The Press
- Article date:
- February 6, 2002
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WELLINGTON -- A unemployed Wellington man was run over while
trying to escape with a stolen cash register, the Wellington District
Court was told.
Hone Rankin Daniels, who turned 19 yesterday, pleaded guilty to
unlawfully getting into a motor vehicle, theft, dangerous driving,
and driving with excess breath alcohol.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Marc May said that on November 18 last
year, Daniels was the driver of a car stolen from outside a block of
apartments where he lived.
About 6.30pm, Daniels and a friend drove to a dairy in Mount
Victoria suburb.
While he waited in the car, the friend ran into the dairy and
grabbed the shop cash register.
It was valued at $1000 and contained $252 ...