More firearms charges laid against former Southland rugby player
1 Feb, 2021 05:01 PM
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Pita Wilson was remanded in custody to reappear in the Christchurch District Court via audiovisual link on February 15. Photo / Otago Daily Times
Otago Daily Times
By: Jared Morgan
A 44-year-old former Southland rugby representative s history of playing catch and release with the law has again resulted in his arrest.
Pita William Hapurona Wilson, stonemason, of Invercargill, twice appeared in the Christchurch District Court via audiovisual link yesterday following his arrest on Sunday.
Police were searching for Wilson when they found a suspected car-boot meth lab at the Ashford Motor Lodge in Papanui Rd, Christchurch.
“I’m interested in getting on with my life. I’m lonely and stuck in New Zealand due to the [parole] board’s decision to keep me here,” Thomson said. Thomson, who has also gone by the names of Andrew Tonks Thomson and Andrew Charles Tonks was sentenced in the Invercargill District Court in March 2020 for theft in a special relationship, namely $300,000, two charges using a forged document, two charges of managing a company while prohibited and making a false statement with a shareholder consent form in 2019. The offending related to dealings in Queenstown. At the time, one of the victims read her impact statement in court, and said he preyed on her “kind, empathetic nature to con me.”
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Former animal control officer Michael Murdoch has been fined $1500 for breaching the Covid-19 national lockdown rules. (File photo)
An Invercargill animal control officer who licked his fingers and wiped them down his workplace reception window the day he was told he had recovered from Covid-19 has lost his job and been fined $1500. Michael James Murdoch, who had interim name suppression, appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Thursday for sentencing on a charge of failing to comply with a medical officer of health requirement to stay at home unless it was for essential personal movement or an essential permitted movement.
Man banned from Air NZ flights, Invercargill Airport after bomb joke
26 Jan, 2021 12:14 AM
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Invercargill Airport. Photo / Getty Images
Otago Daily Times
A man is blacklisted from Air New Zealand flights and is banned from Invercargill Airport after he joked he had a bomb in his bag before he was set to depart.
Stewart George Dempsey, 58, of Napier, appeared today at Invercargill District Court facing a charge of endangering transport in relation to the incident last Friday.
The airport had to be evacuated after the joke .
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Otago Daily Times understands the man allegedly said the joke when a staff member asked if he had any bags to check-in, and he allegedly pointed to the bags and said it was the ones that had bombs in it.
Man charged over Southland double fatal car crash
23 Jan, 2021 04:35 AM
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Road closures from the fatal crash last September which killed a young father and his five-month-old baby. Photo / File
Road closures from the fatal crash last September which killed a young father and his five-month-old baby. Photo / File
Otago Daily Times
By: Abbey Palmer / Otago Daily Times
Charges have been laid in relation to a double fatal car crash in Southland which killed a young father and his five-month-old baby.
Emergency services rushed to the scene of the four-vehicle collision on September 2 last year on the Winton-Lorneville Highway just after 4pm.