US Rowing Team Member Robbed, World Rowing Championships 2010

The United States rowing team has just had an unpleasant brush with New Zealand’s spiralling crime problem. On Saturday a member of the team had a number of personal items stolen after the World Rowing Championships at *Lake Karapiro. A Police press released managed to turn what could’ve been a PR clunker into a ‘gold…

Tourists Robbed At Kerosene Creek

A group of four “international tourists” have been attacked and robbed whilst swimming at Kerosene Creek, near Taupo on Monday night. Their car and a number of possessions were taken during an attack which has left them deeply shaken. Information as to the tourists’ nationality or country of origin seems to have been withheld from…