Statement to be attributed to Wairoa Area Response Manager, Senior Sergeant Maui Aben:
A search warrant executed at a Black Power-linked residential address near Wairoa on Friday resulted in the location and seizure of firearms and ammunition.
The search warrant, at a Lake Road, Frasertown property, was conducted under the umbrella of Operation Atlas – a multi-faceted police response focusing on the disruption and prevention of organised crime and gang-related offending across the Eastern Police district, with a current focus on Wairoa.
Police located the following firearms and ammunition concealed at the rural property:
· 1x Heckler & Koch .22 rifle
· 1x Marlin .22 rifle
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When sentenced in Gisborne District Court in February last year, Judge Warren Cathcart found it hard to believe Hollis’s claim that she had no means to pay reparation. “It staggers me you have no potential to pay reparation, someone who has received a million dollars in this way over a 3½-year period,” the judge said. He said Hollis’s offending was motivated by “pure greed”. The Files took a civil claim against Hollis, her husband Jason Peach and her mother Ann Hollis, seeking an order for recovery of the funds they’d lost. Peach and Ann Hollis were subject to the application because Hollis had given Peach some of the money, and had used some of the money to pay for improvements to her mother’s house.
An East Cape pharmaceutical company has admitted planting mānuka over at least a hectare of regionally-significant wetland without consent.
Gisborne District Council officers found a pump, hose and irrigation equipment running into the wetland in February last year.
Photo: Supplied/ LDR
Tairāwhiti Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty to modifying and taking water from Te Whare Wetlands in breach of the Resource Management Act, after Gisborne District Council laid charges.
The company excavated 460m of channels in the wetlands to reduce flooding of its mānuka plantation, which has been used to produce mānuka oil at its Te Araroa factory.