Pleading guilty to unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and two charges of interfering with a motor vehicle cost an 18-year-old Dargaville man reparations of $1951.35 and 50 hours community work on each of the charges to be served concurrently.
First-time offender Blue Thomas Tana was told by Judge Christopher Field he was entitled to one mistake and he had now made it. He warned him next time he would not be treated so leniently.
Tana's co-offender Patahi Rewi Kawana, also 18, pleaded guilty to two charges of interfering with a motor vehicle. Kawana asked for a community detention sentence as it would be difficult for him to complete community work while employed. He was convicted and remanded on bail until June 18.