More details about that Armed Offenders Squad call out to a residential area in Flatbush, South Auckland have been released today (See yesterday’s blog Armed Robbery Sparks Armed Offenders Call Out) Apparently, the whole thing kicked-off with a shotgun hold-up at the Jokers Bar in Point Chevalier in Auckland. An alert member of the public…
The Taranaki Daily News is carrying a story about an amazing little girl who phoned police whilst a gang of robbers held a gun to her Dad’s head. Just look at the ages of the thugs responsible – the youngest was only 14, not much older than the girl herself. Police managed to catch them…
New Zealand’s violent crime epidemic continues with yesterday’s gun point robbery at a Palmerston North dairy (corner shop) by four youths in their mid to late teens. It follows Sunday’s robbery of a New Plymouth dairy by a gang of five teenagers and this morning’s Armed Offenders Squad call-out to a sighting of an armed…
The rise in violent crime in New Zealand continues unabated today with three more armed hold-ups. The first was at the Balance Street Village pharmacy in Gisborne at 8pm yesterday by a man with a handgun who escaped with a quantity of drugs. The second was at the BNZ bank on Ti Rakau Drive, Manukau…
A man was stabbed in the chest during a robbery gone wrong at The Mill Liquorsave in Taradale, Napier at 6.30 last night, police are looking for two offenders who fled from the scene and ran off across Gloucester St, Meeanee Rd and toward Taradale Park through Symons Lane and White St. View Larger Map…
