Woman admits using card taken in gunpoint robbery
A 28-year-old woman has admitted fraudulently using a bank card taken only an hour earlier in a gunpoint street robbery.
Janitta Chloe Pash, admitted charges of receiving items stolen in the robbery, and dishonestly using the bank card, at an appearance by video-link from the prison, at the Christchurch District Court today.
She had earlier admitted charges of unlawfully having a knife in a public place, and breaches of prison release conditions.
Judge Brian Callaghan remanded her in custody for sentence on November 23. At the request of defence counsel Tom Smedley he asked for an alcohol and drug assessment before the sentencing, and an updated pre-sentence report.
Police said that about 7.20pm on August 20, a man was robbed at gunpoint by two people on Wainoni Road, soon after he finished work at a nearby dairy.
His bag was taken containing his wallet with $20 in cash, a bank debit card, and other bank and loyalty cards, a cell phone, and passport photographs.
Pash received property taken in the robbery within a very short time, and police say she was “reckless” about whether it had been stolen.
Forty-two minutes after the robbery, she used the bank debit card to buy tobacco and cigarettes worth $67.60 at a service station in Linwood.
Ten minutes after that, she bought more tobacco and cigarettes using the card at a service station in the city.
Four minutes later, she tried to make the same purchase at the same service station, but the transaction was declined because the bank had cancelled it at the request of the police.
At 1pm on August 22, police raided the “Portacom” unit Pash occupies at an address in Ferry Road. They found a yellow shopping bag in a rubbish recycling bin outside, near Pash’s unit. It contained the stolen wallet, debit card, loyaly cards, and passport photographs. They also found the grey hooded sweatshirt worn when she tried to use the card.
When she was interviewed, she denied she had used the card, but had no explanation for how the wallet and its contents came to be at her address.
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