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Article: Look-out for car park gang is locked up
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- Bath Chronicle, The
- Article date:
- December 18, 2008
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A teenager has been locked upfor eight months for his role in
a bungled attempt to steal money from a parking meter.
Romanian Dumitru Mares was one of three would-be thieves who
targeted the ticket machine at Charlotte Street car park.
But police witnessed the offence and 19-year-old Mares, who is of
no fixed abode, and had been acting as look-out, was found hiding up
a tree by a sniffer dog.
His accomplices escaped and the defendant later admitted one
charge of attempted theft.
He was sentenced to eight months' detention in a young offenders'
institute.
Richard Posner, prosecuting at Bristol Crown Court, said police
were informed of an attack on the machine at 4.50am on October 29 ...