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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.
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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.
They were following “reasonably good” leads and would release the photos publicly if necessary. Police were also working through the legalities of the situation, he said. Otago Fish and Game council chief executive Ian Hadland said he could not comment on whether the men were shooting legally without knowing more details.
John Bisset
The women were walking beside the Clutha River in Alexandra when they were hit. (File photo) However, rivers and wetlands throughout Otago were common places for duck hunting activity, especially on opening weekend, he said. “Unfortunately encroachment of dwellings, tracks and cycle trails alongside these same areas does have the potential to put higher densities of people into closer proximity to traditional hunting areas.”
121k worth of ecstasy hidden in lolly bags in Queenstown
22 Dec, 2020 06:39 PM
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Otago Daily Times
An Irishman who hid more than 2400 ecstasy pills with an estimated street value of $121,500 in Skittles and M&M lolly bags at his Queenstown home, has been convicted on drug-dealing charges.
Keith Singleton, 30, of Arthurs Point, was arrested after Queenstown police executed a search warrant at the Bullendale property on December 9.
In the Queenstown District Court before Judge Bernadette Farnan yesterday, prosecuting Sergeant Ian Collin said police found 2431 Pink Strawberry party pills and $3260 in cash during the search.
Most of the pills were in Skittles and M&M lolly bags, found inside a suitcase filled with Singleton s partner s clothes.