A South Island man who robbed tourists of goods and cash to the tune of $104,000 has been jailed for three years and two months.
The 25 year old Fox Glacier resident, pleaded guilty in the District Court to 42 theft charges.
These thefts occurred from tourists’ vehicles in carparks mainly at the Copland Track car park although the offender frequented other tourist areas’s including Makarora, Haast, Franz Josef Glacier, Fox Glacier, Lake Moeraki, Karangarua, Wanaka and Whataroa.
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