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Crime
Patuawa Nathan acquitted of murder and manslaughter after stabbing brother Challas Nathan to death in their Auckland home
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 4:27PMA young South Auckland man whose boozy 19th birthday celebration at home with family came to an abrupt end when he stabbed...
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Identity revealed of defendant accused of killing security guard at Auckland reserve
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 3:12PMOne of two men accused of murdering security guard Ramandeep Singh in West Auckland last year has lost name suppression. Lorenzo...
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Brother recounts anger, shame after killing sibling at birthday party
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 8:58PMLess than two hours after his 19th birthday celebration ended abruptly with the stabbing of his older brother, Patuawa Nathan...
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Crime
Tribesmen sergeant-at-arms pleads guilty to shooting his own gang's president
Monday, 15 April 2024, 12:27PMA senior patched Tribesmen member has pleaded guilty to the non-fatal shooting his own gang’s boss, just minutes before his...
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Crime
'Astounding quantities': Young entrepreneur was secret drug syndicate figurehead
Sunday, 14 April 2024, 2:46PMBy the time he was 25, Auckland resident Louis Hall had developed a knack for business that some might say was beyond his...
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Crime
More jail time for Killer Bee who fled prison van in motorway escape
Saturday, 13 April 2024, 12:25PMKiller Beez gang member Zane KJ Hepi was on electronically monitored bail and living at the Grace Foundation drug treatment...
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Revealed: Suppression lapses for one of five defendants in Head Hunters-related murder case
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 2:14PMOne of the five men charged with murder after Samuel Curle was left critically injured on a highway near the northern edge...
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Crime
Head Hunters member pleads guilty to ambush killing of Mongrel Mob boss
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 9:50AMSlain Mongrel Mob leader Daniel Eliu was shot six times at point-blank range - including four in the back - by a patched...
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Crime
'It's my birthday': Brother told police he'd had enough with sibling prior to fatal stabbing
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 4:20PM“F***, I gotten hidings from that c*** many a times. That’s why I said, ‘I’m sick of it. It’s my birthday. I’m not getting...
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Crime
Drug addict used devastating 2023 storms to loot, wreck new homes
Saturday, 6 April 2024, 3:50PMWhile much of Auckland was hunkering down last year in anticipation of Cyclone Gabrielle, Dylan James Hendriks - a drug addict...
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Crime
Swindler dupes woman in her 90s into thinking she'd won $350,000 lottery on Facebook
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 8:53PMAn Auckland man who helped swindle two businesses out of tens of thousands of dollars with decoy invoices - as well as an...
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Crime
Retrial rejected: Man who beat girl, 2, to death claimed miscarriage of justice; appellate panel disagrees
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 3:58PMA man who murdered his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter - beating Arapera Fia so savagely inside the South Auckland home...
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Caught on video: Arson charge filed, eight months after blaze in Countdown toilet paper aisle
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 2:25PMA woman has been charged with arson, eight months after an Auckland grocery store had to be evacuated and closed for a day...
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Revealed: Businessman drove two Ferraris, but an ecstasy and P factory secretly underscored his success
Wednesday, 3 April 2024, 4:23PMTo a passive observer, businessman Shuchen “Ace” Liu would have appeared five years ago to have reached the upper echelons...
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Crime
'Bizarre and horrifying scene': Father bound 3yo in packing tape for an hour
Sunday, 31 March 2024, 12:33PMA self-described stressed-out, stay-at-home dad has been sentenced after using packing tape to tie up his 3-year-old son...
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Caught on video: Bungling young bandit jailed for jewellery heist
Friday, 29 March 2024, 4:45PMA young man who joined groups of underage teens in two brazen daylight robberies of high-end Auckland Central jewellery stores...
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Security company worker pilfers $466k, using his children as decoys, in years-long swindle
Friday, 29 March 2024, 12:34PMAn Auckland man managed to embezzle nearly half a million dollars from his employer in an elaborate, years-long payroll swindle. Randwick...
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National
'Danger to this country': Amateur bomb-maker claimed he had enough explosives to level Sky Tower
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 4:42PMA homeless ex-con and amateur bomb-maker who caused the evacuation of a busy Auckland Central park earlier this year after...
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Crime
Identities revealed of two men accused of killing Head Hunters member in park brawl
Monday, 25 March 2024, 2:18PMTwo co-defendants set to go to trial next year for the alleged murder of patched Head Hunters member Charles Pongi during...
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Crime
Young murder victim died in mum's arms as primary school students walked home
Monday, 25 March 2024, 1:45PMA young gang member initially implicated in two Auckland murders during an alleged month-long crime spree in 2019 asked a...
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Crime
Ralph Vuletic jailed for Auckland Airport, Ports of Auckland meth import schemes
Saturday, 23 March 2024, 12:48PMA former Ferrari-driving Auckland property hotshot who 20 years ago was considered the industry’s youngest “mover and shaker”...
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Crime
Man who stabbed Auckland MMA fighter to death acquitted on self-defence grounds
Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 7:19AMThe fatal stabbing of well-known Auckland mixed martial arts fighter Kevin “Honey Badger” Hay outside a North Shore residence two...
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Crime
Gunman guilty of murder: Mum, best bud and girlfriend to be sentenced too
Monday, 18 March 2024, 8:30PMAn Auckland man who admitted to ambushing and fatally shooting a small-time drug dealer, fleeing with the victim’s wallet...
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Thief who sparked nationwide outrage for killing of dairy worker pleads guilty to murder
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 10:32AMAn Auckland man who sparked nationwide outrage and widespread protests after stabbing to death a newlywed dairy worker in...