Two men burgled a Sutton Bridge business to raid diesel when one of them hadn’t enough money to fill up his tank to drive to his new job.
Police were called to Halifax and Johnson, in East Bank, shortly before midnight on June 25 and searched the premises.
No one was found but a police dog handler waited two hours, watching “a suspicious car”, and saw Matthew Chapman and Elliot Doherty-Hazel approach the Peugeot.
Rebecca Ritson, prosecuting, said the pair didn’t get as far as stealing diesel – they stole keys from the business and Doherty-Hazel showed police where they had hidden them.
Miss Ritson said Chapman used to work for the business and knew where the keys were kept.
She said Doherty-Hazel was also in possession of a small amount of cannabis.
Jobless Chapman (22), of Royal Close, Sutton Bridge, was fined £75 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £20 victim surcharge when he pleaded guilty to burglary.
Doherty-Hazel, (22), of Wildfowlers Way, Gedney Drove End, was fined a higher sum – £170 – because he is working when he admitted burglary and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £20 victim surcharge.
He received no separate penalty when he admitted the cannabis offence.
Solicitor Mike Alexander, for Doherty-Hazel, said both men came up with the “ill considered venture” when they couldn’t think of a legal way for Doherty-Hazel to get to work.