A 24-year-old man wrestled in a moving car with a man over $3200 cash and then pushed him out onto the road breaking his leg, the Supreme Court in Launceston heard on Friday.
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The court heard that in the "drug deal gone wrong", cash was being thrown out the window of the vehicle as the men fought.
Kaleb Cameron Morey, 24, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated robbery against Alex Kenneth Lillico and causing bodily harm in an incident at Newnham on November 3 last year.
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A co-accused has pleaded not guilty and will appear in March.
Crown prosecutor Emily Judd said Mr Lillico organised to buy two pounds of cannabis from Morey for $3200.
Morey became upset after Mr Lillico asked him to deliver the cannabis to an address in Newnham and formed a plan to steal the cash and not hand over the cannabis.
He and a friend drove from Invermay to the address where they were handed the cash.
Morey told the driver to "go, go, go" and accelerated away with the complainant inside the car.
The complainant threw handfuls of cash out the window of the moving car as the pair wrestled.
In Arnold Street, Morey grabbed the complainant by the arm and pushed him out the open car door causing him to suffer a broken leg.
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Ms Judd said a witness saw Morey and the co-accused collecting banknotes off the road before driving away.
The complainant called for help and an ambulance arrived to take him to hospital.
Morey sent a text message saying:
That's what you get for treating me like a goose, there is $1000 on the road pick it up on your way home.
- Morley wrote in a text message.
Ms Judd said that Morey told police that the complainant had pulled a knife and tried to stab him while they were wrestling. He said the complainant owed him $2000.
However, Ms Judd said the state did not accept the claims.
She handed Justice Robert Pearce 37 pages of prior convictions.
"The accused has an appalling record for a young person with 11 prior offences for assault and six for stealing and two for motor vehicle stealing," she said.
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"It is aggravating that the stealing was premeditated."
The court heard that Morey had already been sentenced in the Launceston Magistrates Court on January 6 to a two-year jail sentence for a series of offences including motor vehicle stealing and driving while disqualified at Fingal on November 8, 2020.
He was also convicted for evading police and driving while disqualified at Waverley and Ravenswood on November 11 as well as evading police and driving while disqualified in Lambert Street, Ravenswood, on November 13.
He was arrested on November 14.
Defence counsel Alex Pemberton said it was a case of a drug deal gone wrong.
He said Morey had spent three of his six adult years in jail and was last released in July 2020.
"From August to November 2020 he had no fixed address and had been using ice," he said.
Justice Pearce will sentence on February 22 at 4.15pm.
Nick Clark
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
