Gangs

Witnesses are being sought to an aggravated robbery in Wairoa after nine youths - some as young as 12-years-old and dressed in gang colours  robbed a young tourist for her cigarettes and money yesterday afternoon.

Police are still seeking a man and a woman after a gun was fired in a confrontation between rival gangs in Gisborne.

Dunedin police yesterday moved to reassure the public they were closely scrutinising gang activity in the city, and working to move at least a few gang members out of Pine Hill.

Gang tensions continued to escalate in Dunedin yesterday, with police warning out-of-town members were arriving in the city.

The leaders of the Mongrel Mob and Black Power gangs have been called on to sort out their differences in Dunedin before any innocent members of the public get hurt.

The president of the Dunedin chapter of Black Power and a teenage associate of the Mongrel Mob fresh from a four-year prison sentence for shooting at police were two of four men before the Dunedin District Court yesterday in relation to a gang-related shooting in the city.

Armed police swooped on five Dunedin gang homes yesterday, as part of ongoing investigations into two recent armed robberies in the city.

Eight months after the event, police have released CCTV footage of a gang-related shooting on the forecourt of a northern Hawke's Bay service station.

Police have arrested 15 people and expect to arrest more after they crashed a bulldozer through the front entrance of a Red Devils' gang house in Nelson this morning as part of a nationwide operation targeting gangs.

Police crashed a bulldozer through the front entrance of a Red Devils' gang house in Nelson this morning as part of an operation targeting gangs in the top of the South Island.