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NZ police make arrest after incident on Crown Range in March
A man has been arrested following a reported assault on the Crown Range in late March.
Detective Senior Sergeant Malcolm Inglis says a 21-year-old man reported being flagged down by a stranded motorist about 10pm on Friday 26 March.
“He reported that while looking at the person’s vehicle he was seriously assaulted and robbed of his backpack and contents,” he says.
“Yesterday a 20-year-old Cromwell man was arrested and charged with the robbery.”
He is due to appear in Queenstown District Court on Monday 10 May.
“Police enquiries have now established the pair were known to one another and the meeting, which actually occurred in the car park at Coronet Peak, was pre-arranged,” Detective Senior Sergeant Inglis says.
A 20-year-old man s been arrested after a reported assault on the Crown Range in late March 5 May 2021
Late in March, a 21-year-old told Police he was flagged down about 10pm by a stranded motorist.
He says he was then assaulted and robbed of his backpack and contents.
But, Police have now found out the pair knew each other and pre-arranged the meeting, which was actually at a Coronet Park carpark.
The arrested man is due to appear in Queenstown District Court on Monday.
The victim is expected to be charged with making a false statement to Police.
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In late March, police called for help from the public to catch an assailant who turned on a motorist that had stopped to provide assistance. At around 10:30pm a man stopped at the Eastburn Road layby on the Queenstown side of the Crown Range after noticing an unknown man signalling for help using a cellphone torch, police said in a statement on 27 March. After stopping and getting out of his car, the victim was asked to look at an issue with the other man s vehicle. As the victim turned away he was punched several times by the man, who then grabbed the victim s backpack and drove off in an unknown direction.
Queenstown good Samaritan attack: Robber and victim both charged after alleged robbery and false statement
5 May, 2021 03:44 AM
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Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
A man has been arrested and charged after a violent attack on a good Samaritan in Queenstown in March.
But the alleged victim will also be charged after police established the attack was not random and he knew the accused.
In March police appealed for information about the attack, saying a Good Samaritan suffered a fractured jaw after an assault and robbery at the Eastburn Rd layby on the Queenstown side of the Crown Range.