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Thursday, 25 February 2021, 3:43 pm Acting Eastern District Crime Manager, Detective Inspector Brent Greville: For the past six weeks, Police in Wairoa supported by staff from Gisborne, Napier and Hastings have had a concentrated focus on quelling recent gang conflicts in the area.   As a result of this increased focus in Wairoa, Police have made 15 gang-related arrests which have included members of both the Mongrel Mob and Black Power. Five men were charged with offences in relation to rece...

Troubled Whangārei suburb welcomes police operation to tackle gangs with guns 25 Feb, 2021 04:01 PM 5 minutes to read Martin Kaipo, chief executive of Te Hau Āwhiowhio ō Ōtangarei Trust, supports the police operation as he wants to see guns and violence out of Northland communities. Photo / File Martin Kaipo, chief executive of Te Hau Āwhiowhio ō Ōtangarei Trust, supports the police operation as he wants to see guns and violence out of Northland communities. Photo / File Multimedia journ...

Police found messages showing Collins’ drug dealing on his phone, when they searched his house for an unrelated matter in July last year. The earliest evidence of drug dealing was from July, 2019, when Collins’ sold an associate an ounce of cannabis for $450. When police searched Collins’ phone, they found messages that he was trying to sell Giorgio Armani suits to associates. Collins told an associate that one suit was worth $6420, the other $8040, and then offered to sell them for $...

Police say a run of shootings in Invercargill are gang related, involving Mongrel Mob and Black Power.

On Monday Hewitt told the jury she’d seen Rowe with blood coming from his head while outside her Ashhurst house the night Wilkinson was allegedly killed. Wilkinson was at the house and when men arrived he went outside with Rowe, telling Hewitt to stay inside, she had said. Signal’s lawyer Charl Hirschfeld​ questioned Hewitt’s memory of the night, saying she was stressed and unable to accurately recall everything. She disagreed. “I was focusing on my child and everything, really. Y...

Gangs in Hawkes Bay: More patches, more players, fewer crimes 22 Feb, 2021 12:02 AM 7 minutes to read Theres movement in Hawkes Bays gang scene, but a local expert says its unlikely to disrupt the regions main players. Photo / File Hawkes Bay Today By: Christian Fuller The fight to own Hawkes Bays methamphetamine market has brought about an expansion of the regions gang scene. Fourteen different gangs, and more than 1200 patched members, are now on the polices watchlist. But those numb...

Rowe and Wilkinson had been at Hewitts house to collect some of Wilkinsons clothing and other items. Wilkinson was standing in her bedroom when men arrived and she told him Moananui was outside. Wilkinson told her to stay inside, and he went outside with Rowe. “He walked out and I didnt see him again,” Hewitt said. She was trying to put her 3-year-old son to bed, then she heard banging which she thought was coming from the garage. “I saw [Rowe] on the driveway on his knees with blood...

Patched gang members - why aren't police making arrests?

Although defendants usually have lawyers for charges as serious as murder, Moananui is representing himself. But lawyer Paul Surridge​, appointed by the court to help him, told the jury on Friday Moananui was too unwell to be in court. Moananui had a skin complaint that had not yet been treated. It was so serious he had been unable to sleep for three days, Surridge said. “We hope it’s not something the other people [in the dock] can catch. “He needs to catch up on sleep and get so...

Gangland: a book about meth and the people whose lives it touches Review Chloe Blades spent two years working to rehabilitate men like those in Jared Savage’s Gangland: New Zealand’s Underworld of Organised Crime. She explains how the book has upended her thinking.  Gangland has the kind of title I’ve spent six years avoiding.  Books and films on gangs are too often sensationalist. Typically, we get brief intros to gang members, emphasising their role as part of a dangerous collective. ...