Wanted man chooses cells over Dunedin's weather

A man wanted by police after leaving a residential facility for male offenders chose a return to the cells over Dunedin's weather.

Michael Raymond Norton removed a monitoring alarm and left Moana House late last week, prompting police to issue a recall warrant.

Earlier this week, he knocked on the door of a Mornington home and used the phone to call his probation officer, but left before police arrived.

Early yesterday Norton called police from a phone box.

He told them he was cold and wet, was picked up, and faced court today.

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