A former Armourguard employee used the company’s special codes to raid almost $200,000 from an ATM machine in a heist she executed with the help of her father.<\/p>\n
And while police have managed to claw back more than $30,000, just over $159,000 remains outstanding, with a police officer earlier suspecting it may lie buried on the Coromandel.<\/p>\n
The heist was carried out by former Armourguard employee, Jessie-Lee Daniela-Ranford, 26, who enlisted the help of her now terminally-ill father, James Lindsay Ranford, to act as her getaway driver.<\/p>\n
The pair reappeared in the Hamilton District Court on Wednesday, where they were due to be sentenced on two charges of burglary.<\/p>\n
However, Judge Glen Marshall adjourned the case to allow them to try and remember where the stolen money is.<\/p>\n
“One issue I have with both defendants is that they both say that the other has had control of the money,” Judge Marshall put to Ranford’s counsel, Shelley Gilbert.<\/p>\n
“I have talked about that, but I don’t think the money is coming … as of today, I have no instructions about the money,” Gilbert said.<\/p>\n
Jaiden Manera, counsel for Daniela-Ranford, said the only money she had retained was used to buy a vehicle, which was then seized by police.<\/p>\n
“So all in all, Ms Daniela-Ranford, on her instructions, simply was not the beneficiary of the monies.<\/p>\n
“That’s as far as I can take it.”<\/p>\n
It was 31 May, last year, at 4.16pm when Ranford and his daughter, in a rear passenger seat, parked up outside Yukedas Party and Gift Store in Hillcrest.<\/p>\n
The pair had slightly altered the registration plates of their Nissan Tiida by changing one of the numbers.<\/p>\n
Dressed in all black, Daniela-Ranford got out of the car with her hood up and walked into the store and went straight to an ATM cash machine.<\/p>\n
She entered two codes and removed five canisters containing $50 and $20 notes, court documents say.<\/p>\n
She then got into the back seat of the car, and Ranford took off “at high speed”, heading east along Clyde Street.<\/p>\n
A short time later, the Nissan was set alight on Holland Road, Eureka, on the outskirts of Hamilton.<\/p>\n
The pair was captured on CCTV at Z petrol station in Hautapu in their Mitsubishi Outlander, registered in Daniela-Radford’s name.<\/p>\n
At the hearing, Gilbert successfully asked for her client’s sentencing to be adjourned so home detention could be explored as a sentencing option.<\/p>\n
Police prosecutor Jamie Rowney confirmed $159,300 was still outstanding.<\/p>\n
Police had gathered $28,000 from the vehicle seizure and found $5000 “laying around” in one of Ranford’s vehicles.<\/p>\n
He labelled their offending as “significant and egregious,” which had a significant financial implication on the victim company, and there had been no attempts by either defendant to return the money.<\/p>\n
“I’m aware that Mr Ranford, in particular, knows where that money is.<\/p>\n
“He has not made any effort to return even a small amount.<\/p>\n
“This offending has caused real harm to the community.”<\/p>\n
Manera responded and said Daniela-Ranford had been “unequivocal” in that she didn’t have the money.<\/p>\n
Judge Marshall agreed to adjourn the sentencing and relax Daniela-Ranford’s bail condition, avoiding contact with her father, so the pair could work out where the remaining money is.<\/p>\n
They were both remanded on further bail to reappear for sentencing next month.<\/p>\n
Source: RNZ & NZ Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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