{"id":111595,"date":"2025-11-01T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111595\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:15:08","slug":"black-power-associate-sentenced-over-rotorua-gang-clash-and-facebook-bike-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111595\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Power associate sentenced over Rotorua gang clash and Facebook bike stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wrigley Rd<\/a> incident on September 4 last year involved a clash between two chapters of Black Power.<\/p>\n

Three men from one chapter fought with four from the other.<\/p>\n

Judge Marshall said the altercation ended with one chapter firing two shots from a firearm towards the men Hirawani was associated with.<\/p>\n

The groups fled the scene but Hirawani returned 20 minutes later, this time leading 20 men.<\/p>\n

Hirawani was at the front of the group when they stormed through the gates of a Wrigley Rd property and damaged the house.<\/p>\n

\"BlackBlack Power chapters fought on Wrigley Rd. <\/p>\n

Judge Marshall said Hirawani, armed with a curtain rail, damaged a CCTV camera at the property.<\/p>\n

\u201cLater, the house was the subject of an arson and it was extensively damaged, although it\u2019s not suggested that you were part of that,\u201d he told the defendant.<\/p>\n

Judge Marshall said the reckless driving charge stemmed from an April incident when Hirawani and his associates were driving around Rotorua on motorcycles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were weaving in and out of traffic, doing wheelstands and creating chaos as far traffic was concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police summary of facts said Hirawani was riding in the Fordlands and Sunset Rd areas. <\/p>\n

He was not wearing a helmet and drove on the wrong side of the road, on footpaths and towards oncoming vehicles.<\/p>\n

The wheelstands were done while not holding the handlebars and while weaving in and out of traffic, the summary said.<\/p>\n

The charge of unlawfully being in a motor vehicle stemmed from Hirawani\u2019s fingerprint being found on the ignition barrel of a car stolen in Putaruru in July last year.<\/p>\n

Hirawani\u2019s lawyer, Terere Aoake, had asked Judge Marshall to adjourn sentencing as they had found an address where Hirawani could potentially serve a home detention sentence.<\/p>\n

However, Judge Marshall agreed with Crown prosecutor Kris Bucher that sentencing should go ahead.<\/p>\n

He gave a starting point of two years and two months\u2019 jail, but reduced it by 11 months to take into account Hirawani\u2019s guilty plea and factors in his background.<\/p>\n

Judge Marshall sentenced him to 15 months\u2019 jail but granted him leave to apply for home detention from prison if the proposed address was found to be suitable. <\/p>\n

Kelly Makiha<\/a> is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua Daily Post for more than 25 years, covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wrigley Rd incident on September 4 last year involved a clash between two chapters of Black Power.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,665,60504,1070,12640,7022,12413,3019,50605,31787,4636,1328,79868,79866,79865,28065,111,43,139,69,1523,10112,1327,5161,52039,27051,210,3946,4129,79867,3089,79869,6123],"class_list":["post-111595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-around","tag-associate","tag-bike","tag-bikes","tag-black","tag-chaos","tag-clash","tag-creating","tag-doing","tag-facebook","tag-gang","tag-handsfree","tag-hirawani","tag-kristafa","tag-mates","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-power","tag-rotorua","tag-sentenced","tag-stunt","tag-themselves","tag-through","tag-traffic","tag-trail","tag-videoed","tag-weaving","tag-wheelstands","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}