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Offender Databases Joshua Haenga

Joshua Albert Haenga

Alias

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Offences

Two armed robberies of a Palmertson North bank branch in September 2009

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1984

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 8 years 8 months in December 2009

Background
From the Manawatu Standard 19 December 2009
A HIGHBURY labourer who robbed the Terrace End ANZ Bank twice in two weeks has been jailed for eight years and eight months. Joshua Albert Haenga, 25, was sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court yesterday on two charges each of aggravated robbery and unlawfully taking a motor vehicle. The bank was held up at gunpoint on September 17 and 28 this year.

About $6000 was taken in the first robbery and $5000 in the second, from the same tellers on each occasion. Police said after the September 28 robbery that a masked man used a long-barrelled shotgun to hold up the ANZ bank, on the corner of Ruahine St and Broadway Ave, about 9.40am. He escaped in a maroon Mitsubishi Lancer, which police tried to pull over in the Rangiora Ave-Ngarimu St area shortly after.

Leaving the car in a residential driveway, he ran into Lindsay Cox's Hulme St house through the front door yelling "hide me, hide me". Haenga hid in the wardrobe for five minutes until police arrived and arrested him. Police reports say Haenga's September 17 robbery was committed at 10.45am, when he pointed a weapon - believed to be a long-barrelled shotgun - at tellers and demanded money, before running outside to a waiting getaway car. In that incident, he robbed two bank employees of about $6000.

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