A man has pleaded not guilty to snatching a seven-month-old baby boy while stealing the infant's mother's car in Canberra last week.
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But Andrew Ball, 27, has pleaded guilty to a string of other offences committed during a crime spree through the northern suburbs on the same day.
Ball is accused of stealing the car on February 20, after its driver stopped to help him.
Police allege a baby boy, named Morrison, was in the back.
The theft prompted a major search by police, who shut down routes out of Canberra, and employed vast resources, including a police helicopter, in their attempt to try and find Ball.
The baby boy was later found alive and well on a porch in Palmerston.
Ball appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court again on Thursday, and was charged with a number of additional offences.
He is charged over the knife-point robbery of a pharmacy, and stealing cigarettes, a bottle of vodka, beer, a computer, a media player, a wallet, a Visa card, and a Ford Territory, all on the same day.
He is also accused of breaking into a Palmerston home.
Ball pleaded guilty to all the crimes, save for taking the baby, and did not apply for bail.
He will appear in court again in March.
An alcohol and drug assessment and pre-sentence report have been ordered before his sentencing.