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Dylan Kane Fitzgerald has been sentenced to 150 hours’ community work and ordered to pay about $1000 reparation on theft and drug-related charges.
A 30-year-old man falsified barcodes to purchase nearly $1000 worth of goods for $12 from a Timaru department store. Police, when executing a search warrant at Dylan Kane Fitzgerald s home looking for the stolen items, opened a cupboard to also discover 10 cannabis plants growing under a light. Fitzgerald, who pleaded guilty to obtaining by deception, cultivating cannabis, possessing cannabis plant, and shoplifting, was sentenced to 150 hours community work and ordered to pay $1009.81 reparation when he appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Timaru District Court on Tuesday.
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