A council worker and volunteer firefighter has admitted sparking four bomb threats after placing suspicious packages in two Hamilton parks.
Bradley David Taylor, 27, today also admitted a charge of theft of fire equipment from the Ngaruawahia Fire Brigade valued at $6,000 when he appeared before Judge Philip Connell in the Hamilton District Court.
The charges relate to four separate incidents in June last year.
Three packages were placed in Gower Park while a fourth was left in Melville Park.
The bomb hoaxes resulted in the NZ Defence Force bomb squad being sent to the city on four separate occasions, causing a large amount of disruption to the south end of the city, in and around Bader and Melville, which is also near Waikato Hospital.