Police bust Auckland drug dealing network
A large network dealing in cocaine and methamphetamine in Auckland has been shut down after an investigation running for several months, police say. Operation Ceviche, conducted in three phases, has...
View ArticleSir Ngatata Love found guilty of obtaining property by deception
UPDATED 9.59AM Prominent Maori leader Sir Ngatata Love has been found guilty of obtaining property by deception in a $1.8 million fraud connected to a Wellington property development. Justice Graham...
View ArticleHawke's Bay man charged with blackmail
A Hawke's Bay man has been charged with the blackmail of a number of New Zealand companies. The 55-year-old will face seven counts of blackmail when he appears in the Hastings District Court today. The...
View ArticleLodge owner admits filming male guests
The owner of a Kaitaia backpackers’ lodge has pleaded guilty to all 42 charges of making and possessing intimate visual recordings of male guests. Michael Harris, 56, initially entered pleas to 14...
View ArticleTeens charged over mass KFC brawl appear in court
Two teens charged over a mass brawl that ended in a south Auckland KFC have appeared in court. The fight, which took place in the Mangere East restaurant on Monday, involved 80 Auckland youths who...
View ArticleCHCH inmates sentenced over murder of fellow prisoner
UPDATED 2.33pm: Three Christchurch Men’s Prison inmates have been sentenced over the fatal bashing of a fellow prisoner. Twenty three-year-old Akuhatua Tihi has been given life, with a minimum...
View ArticleCrash victim's plea: Return my stolen drugs
A chronically ill burglary victim is making an emotional appeal for the return of prized possessions - her marijuana plants. The marijuana stash was stolen from the 49-year-old's Christchurch home....
View ArticlePolice seek five men involved in unprovoked attack in Napier
Napier police are investigating an unprovoked attack on three people in the early hours of this morning. They say the three friends were walking In Greenmeadows, near the intersection of Atherfold...
View ArticleAddict jailed for stealing rehab centre's car
A drug addict who stole a car from a Christchurch drugs rehab centre sobbed in the dock today as he was jailed on his daughter's first birthday. Travis James Baillie, 25, took the car while living at...
View ArticleArmed police attending incident in Glen Eden
UPDATED 8.24pm Five people have been arrested after a car pursuit across Auckland and then a foot chase by police officers. The offenders ran into an family-run electronics shop on Sunnybrae Rd in...
View ArticleDriver sought after incident involving female hitchhiker
Police are searching for a driver who picked up a young female hitchhiker who claims an "incident occurred" inside the car. A 22-year-old woman was hitchhiking between Queenstown and Cromwell on the...
View ArticleIPCA clears police in Upper Hutt fatal shooting
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found two officers were justified in shooting an armed man dead in the Hutt Valley. Pera Smiler sparked a major police operation in September last year,...
View ArticleTeenager who distributed intimate video discharged without conviction
A rising teenage sports star who made an intimate visual recording on his phone of a woman he met in an Auckland bar, has been discharged without conviction. The 19-year-old, who can't be identified...
View ArticleCigarettes and tobacco not a new target for thieves - Police
Police say there is nothing new in cigarettes and tobacco being popular targets for thieves. ACT party leader David Seymour said a put a recent spike in reported robberies in dairies are due to the...
View ArticleJury out in Quinton Winders murder trial
The jury has gone out in the trial of the man accused of murdering stop-go man George Taiaroa. Quinton Winders has been on trial in the High Court at Rotorua for just over four weeks, accused of the...
View ArticleChristchurch man to appear in court over violent dairy robbery
An 18-year old man will appear in the Christchurch District Court this afternoon in connection with a violent dairy robbery. The Armed Offenders Squad searched multiple houses in the city this morning...
View ArticlePungent aroma leads Police to cannabis in car
The strong smell coming from Tremaine Turanga Reweti's car led police to the cannabis in the boot. On April 1, Reweti was stopped by police on Broughton St in Whanganui. "A strong smell of cannabis was...
View ArticleBankrupt Canterbury gold trader skips the country
A bankrupt gold trader being investigated for allegations he ripped off clients in a $100,000 fraud has fled New Zealand, police say. Christopher Michael Heaps, 28, is being investigated by Canterbury...
View ArticleMan jailed for eight years for attempt to smuggle ephedrine
A Chinese man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for attempting to import $1.9 million worth of ephedrine hidden in ashtrays, hand warmers and belts. Shuai Zhao, 31, was sentenced in Manukau...
View ArticleFriend pays tribute to Harbour Bridge jumper
UPDATED 3.32pm The best friend of the man who died after jumping from the Auckland Harbour Bridge yesterday has described it as a bad decision that cost him his life. Walter Potini John has posted his...
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