The charges involved Nigel Franks being caught five times in a month driving an unregistered car that had false number plates.

Franks, 19, did not oppose the loss of his vehicle yesterday after he pleaded guilty in Albury Local Court to charges of driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, displaying an unauthorised number plate and having goods in custody.

Solicitor Andrea MacDonald said Franks had bought the car for $300 and repaired it. He replaced the exhaust, put on new tyres and did other work to it.

Magistrate Tony Murray said Franks was already on a suspended sentence and community- based order in Victoria where he is charged with two counts of dangerous driving, two counts of aggravated cruelty, two counts of offensive behaviour and two counts of negligent driving.

He last month allegedly ran over a kangaroo and dragged it behind a car into High Street, Wodonga where he dumped it.

Wodonga police have alleged the incident with the kangaroo happened early on January 11.

Mr Murray was told yesterday that police in Albury had been doing random breath testing about 12.50pm the same day in Union Road at Lavington when they saw Franks driving a red Commodore.

They knew it was unregistered and had false plates so they stopped him.

Franks told police he put the false plates on his car in an effort to avoid paying its registration.

He had known the car was unregistered since he bought it two months earlier.

Police had already stopped Franks two days before this incident and established that the registration had expired on December 28, 2010.

The plates on Franks’ vehicle had been taken from a Toyota Tarago in Poplar Drive at Lavington on January 9.

Police yesterday asked that the car be seized because Franks was deemed to be a habitual offender.

They said the vehicle had false plates on it three times when Franks was stopped with the plates on two occasions reported to have been stolen.

Ms MacDonald said Franks now lived in the south east of NSW at Cooma and received a youth allowance benefit.