Man charged with murder of 3 month old boy
A 43-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a three-month-old boy. The charge comes more than two years after the baby died in a house on the outskirts of Invercargill in January 2014. The...
View ArticleMan bashed in Mt Albert
A man has been rushed to Auckland Hospital this morning after being bashed in Mt Albert. The attack was just after 3am this morning, and ambulance staff say he's in a critical condition. Police said...
View ArticlePolice searching for armed robber in Auckland
Police are looking for an armed robber who stole money at gunpoint from a south Auckland dairy. The robbery happened around 7pm on Great south Rd, near Grandevue Rd. "A man had entered a dairy and...
View ArticlePolice seek information on sexual assault by Chch uni
Police in Christchurch are appealing for information after a woman was sexually assaulted near the University of Canterbury. The woman was walking by herself through Ilam Fields towards Waimairi Road...
View ArticleMan tries to lure children using Pokemon Go
Canterbury police are continuing their work to identify a to lure children away using the app Pokemon Go. The app allows people to catch Pokemon in the real world by using their smart phone's GPS and...
View ArticleKiwi sportsman in Rio suffers shakedown
UPDATED 2.09pm: A Kiwi sportsman in Rio says he was kidnapped by men in police uniform and forced to withdraw money from ATMs. Jiu-Jitsu trainer Jason Lee has written on facebook he was threatened with...
View ArticleArmed police raid house in Rangiora
UPDATED 11.47am: A man and a woman have been arrested after armed police raided a house in North Canterbury this morning. A large number of Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) officers, along with plain...
View ArticleHastings hunter admits fatally shooting young soldier
A Hastings hunter has admitted killing a young soldier and injuring another man in the Ruahine Ranges. Gary McCurrach has pleaded guilty at the Hastings District Court to careless use of a rifle,...
View ArticleCouple busted having sex in Timaru Warehouse carpark
A couple has been caught having sex in a car park outside The Warehouse in Timaru. An affronted local spotted the pair engaging in the amorous public act on Monday night and phoned police. Police today...
View ArticlePolice hunt pickpocket stealing from elderly men
UPDATED 5.15pm A quick thinking member of the public has snapped a pick pocket at work . The witness saw a man reach towards the pocket of an elderly man who was reading at the New Lynn library. He...
View ArticlePolice suspect same man behind two North Shore robberies
Police think the same man using a gun is behind a pair of robberies on Auckland's North Shore. The first happened on July 15 in Torbay at a Mobil petrol station. The man filled a petrol container...
View ArticleMan who abused bobby calves sentenced to home detention
UPDATED 1.17pm: The slaughter man whose cruel mistreatment of more than 100 bobby calves was caught on camera has been sentenced to home detention. Noel Erickson, 38, has escaped a jail term but was...
View ArticlePolice release footage of brutal assault on dairy owner
Police have released the video of a brutal assault on a south Auckland dairy owner, in hope the public can help them stop a violent offender. They're investigating a series of aggravated robberies at...
View ArticleArrest made over attempted robbery
A 24-year-old man has been arrested over the attempted robbery of a Christchurch dairy. Police say a man tried to take a number of items from a shop on Opawa Road around 8 this morning, but the owners...
View ArticleKiwi arrested over Melbourne hit and run
A New Zealander has been arrested in Melbourne after a fatal hit-and-run in West Melbourne this morning. The 21-year-old man, who lives in North Melbourne, was arrested earlier this morning on separate...
View ArticlePolice call for witnesses following a hit and run
Police are calling for witnesses to a hit and run incident on Glenfield Road, Glenfield on Thursday night. They said a smaller red or black Subaru which might now have a broken front windscreen and a...
View ArticleLawyer: Accused cricketer acted "like any red-blooded male would"
The lawyer for a Northern Districts cricketer says he acted like any other red-blooded male, when he tried to have sex with a woman after she earlier said no. The trial of 24-year-old Scott Kuggeleijn...
View ArticleArmed man places Hei Hei area school in lockdown
UPDATED 4.04pm: Two Christchurch school were “locked down” after a man was shot nearby today. In a release to media, police said officers were called to a Hei Hei address following reports a man...
View ArticleHei Hei gunman still on the run
The hunt is still on for the gunman who shot another man in the leg in the Christchurch suburb of Hei Hei. St Bernadette’s and Hornby High were in temporary lockdown after the incident during the...
View ArticleChester Borrows pleads not guilty to careless driving charge
Whanganui MP and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Chester Borrows denied careless driving causing injury to a protestor’s foot when he appeared in the Whanganui District Court this...
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