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DunedinMay 26

Paying their respects

Members of the Mongrel Mob led a funeral procession from St Clair around Dunedin city yesterday.
Paying their respects
Paying their respects
DunedinMarch 18

Council contract back to gang leader

The Dunedin City Council has recommenced its contract with a Black Power leader facing dangerous driving and drugs-related charges.
Council contract back to gang leader
Council contract back to gang leader
DunedinApril 19

Pilot refuses to fly gang members

Three Hells Angels members were grounded yesterday after becoming aggressive with Air New Zealand staff over their gang patches.
Pilot refuses to fly gang members
Pilot refuses to fly gang members
NationalApril 14

NZ will wait and see over Aussie gang laws

Tough Australian anti-gang laws would need to work in practice before New Zealand would consider introducing similar legislation here, Justice Minister Judith Collins says.
DunedinApril 4

Black Power members plead guilty

Five Black Power gang members have admitted their involvement in an armed confrontation with members of the Mongrel Mob at Pine Hill six months ago.
NationalMarch 20

Tauranga residents spooked by blasts, gangs

Residents in a Tauranga neighbourhood say they are being terrorised by gangsters and unexplained explosions.
NationalJanuary 4

Tourist robbed by youths in gang colours

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.
NationalNovember 6

Police seek pair after shooting

Police are still seeking a man and a woman after a gun was fired in a confrontation between rival gangs in Gisborne.
DunedinSeptember 30

Scrutiny of gang activity after clash

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.
DunedinSeptember 29

Gang tensions still rising

Gang tensions continued to escalate in Dunedin yesterday, with police warning out-of-town members were arriving in the city.
Gang tensions still rising
Gang tensions still rising
DunedinSeptember 28

Sort differences, gang heads told

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.
Sort differences, gang heads told
Sort differences, gang heads told
DunedinSeptember 27

Shot gang president charged

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.
Shot gang president charged
Shot gang president charged
DunedinJuly 30

Armed police raid gang houses

Armed police swooped on five Dunedin gang homes yesterday, as part of ongoing investigations into two recent armed robberies in the city.
NationalJune 29

CCTV footage of gang shooting released

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.
NationalMarch 11

Arrests follow major gang bust

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.
NationalMarch 10

Gang targeted in police bust

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.
NationalFebruary 14

Gang member still at large after shooting

A teenage Black Power gang member, alleged to have shot his Mongrel Mob neighbour in the northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa on Sunday morning, remains at large this morning.
WorldNovember 23

More Rio police after gangs rob drivers

Brazilian officials have sent more than 1000 extra police into the streets of Rio de Janeiro to halt an upsurge of roadblocks and mass robberies by gangs that they say are challenging police for control of slums.
More Rio police after gangs rob drivers
More Rio police after gangs rob drivers
DunedinNovember 18

Former gang women share stories

Women who escaped from gangs shared their stories in Dunedin yesterday.
Former gang women share stories
Former gang women share stories
NationalNovember 14

Five arrested in alleged mob attack

Five people have been arrested following an alleged mob attack in Kaikoura last week.
DunedinJune 9

Pressure staying on gangs

The heat will stay on organised crime in Otago and Southland, with a new district-wide police focus targeting those making money and buying assets from illegal means.
Pressure staying on gangs
Pressure staying on gangs
DunedinJune 1

Mob members admit 57 charges

Two senior Dunedin Mongrel Mob members have admitted 57 cannabis charges from the recent police "Operation Rocket".
NationalMay 21

Mob members remanded again

Two members of a Mongrel Mob family allegedly involved in a violent clash with Blenheim police on October 26, 2009 have again been remanded, this time with bail to continue until July 29 or 30.
NationalMay 20

Gang member jailed for trying to get witness to recant

A Road Knights patched gang member who tried to get a 13-year-old girl to recant evidence she had given in court was jailed for 16 months when he appeared in Invercargill District Court today.
NationalMay 14

Man arrested over assault on child in park

A 21-year-old Whakatane man has been charged with assault following an incident involving a four-year-old boy wearing a red shirt at a Whakatane Park last week.