Stolen weeding machine was next to owner’s house
FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Jacob Archer (no address given) appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday on a break and enter and larceny charge. He pleaded not guilty to having, on May 13, broken and entered the storage bond of David Van Que and stolen a weeding machine valued $98,000.
Police Inspector Stephen Telford, prosecuting, said the defendant was seen with a weeding machine next door to the virtual complainant’s house.
The Prosecutor said, when Van Que returned home, he discovered his machine missing.
Archer was put on $80,000 bail until July 1.