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Police are hunting a man who has been on the run since he was found guilty of being part of an armed gang more than a year ago.
Reneo Shehu, 21, was sentenced to more than seven years behind bars in December 2017 after he and three others raided a cannabis factory before driving at police as they attempted to escape.
However, he and Androen Lafetaj were not at Canterbury Crown Court for the hearing.
The Metropolitan Police apprehended Lafetaj three months later, but Shehu has remained at large.
Kent Police has now added the 21-year-old to its most-wanted list.
His sentence followed dramatic scenes in the early hours of November 2, 2016, when neighbours of a property in Edgar Road, Canterbury, called 999 after hearing banging and smashing glass.
A group of men were seen loading items into a Ford Transit van outside the house.
When police approached, the vehicle mounted the pavement and drove at one of them – clipping them in the process.
The burglars abandoned the van in Havelock Street and then split up to try to lose the officers.
Two were found and arrested in Duck Lane – Kerem Bedensel, whose details were found in the vehicle, and Shehu.
The latter was found in possession of two containers of cocaine.
A police dog found the other two men - Osman Elmi, of Finsbury Road in Wood Green, and Lafetaj, of no fixed address - as they hid under vehicles in Queningate car park. A loaded Beretta handgun was also discovered at the scene.
Shehu joins the police's most-wanted list at the same time as 29-year-old Martin Mborah.
He is wanted in connection with an arson in Maidstone on January 28.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Shehu should call 101, quoting most wanted and the reference 46/ZY/9500/16.
Anyone with information on Mborah should call 101, quoting most wanted and reference 46/18706/19.
Alternatively, you can contact the Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
