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Tinny house costs father four years [NZ]
    #5488820 - 04/07/06 02:19 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Tinny house costs father four years
April 7, 2006 - stuff.co.nz

A 52-year-old Porirua man, who claims he ran a tinny house which 150 people visited daily to provide a future for his adult children, was today jailed for four years and three months.

Police estimate Michael Te Wika Anaru sold a cannabis "tinny" worth $20 every four minutes for one year, earning him $3000 a day, $21,000 a week or just over $1 million a year.

He used a cardboard sign to indicate when his Porirua east house was open and sold the tinnies out of a plastic drink bottle at the front door wearing costumes to disguise himself.

Anaru travelled monthly to the East Coast to stock up on cannabis which he stashed in the basement of another house.

When police executed a search warrant in December they found two bags with more than 1kg of marijuana worth $7000 and an Enfield.303 rifle in the basement property. Anaru had about $275,000 in a bank account at the time.

He was sentenced in the High Court at Wellington today after admitting three charges of possessing cannabis for supply, two of selling cannabis and a charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm.

His lawyer Chris Nicholls said Anaru was given the firearm by an associate after being "stood over" by the Mongrel Mob.

Other than a short time working as a truck driver, he had little employment through his life.

Anaru had hoped his cannabis operation would help his son, who had three children, and his daughter who had five children.

"He was doing the only thing he was any good at to try and set them up."

Anaru suffered from poor health and there was a severe risk he would die in jail because of his health, he said.

"Porirua East is a pretty depressing place. The area where he ran his tinny house from is bleak place, there's a lot of despair.

"It's only because depression in the area is so high that people want to get off their faces."

However, Crown prosecutor Tom Gilbert said Porirua East maybe a bleak place, "but Anaru did nothing by his actions to enhance it".

He showed no remorse and had little motivation to address the issues which led to his offending, he said.

Justice Alan Mackenzie said while out of prison on bail in January, police visited Anaru and searched the house after smelling cannabis. They found nine tinnies behind the hot water cylinder which Anaru admitted he intended to sell.

Anaru had 19 previous cannabis convictions, 13 of which he was imprisoned for, the judge said.


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Re: Tinny house costs father four years [NZ] [Re: veggie]
    #5489071 - 04/07/06 06:49 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

"Porirua East is a pretty depressing place. The area where he ran his tinny house from is bleak place, there's a lot of despair.

"It's only because depression in the area is so high that people want to get off their faces."




Can somebody please translate this from slang into common? What does "get off their faces" mean?


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Re: Tinny house costs father four years [NZ] [Re: Seuss]
    #5489998 - 04/07/06 12:57 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

to get wasted.


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i really am glad you came back to us instead of taking the other path. *hug*

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Re: Tinny house costs father four years [NZ] [Re: coda]
    #5490196 - 04/07/06 02:05 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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He used a cardboard sign to indicate when his Porirua east house was open and sold the tinnies out of a plastic drink bottle at the front door wearing costumes to disguise himself.




:confused:


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Re: Tinny house costs father four years [NZ] [Re: abrad84]
    #5490960 - 04/07/06 08:32 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

wow . thats acutally a sad story.
just trying to better others life, and here he gets fucked.


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