Officers were expected to remain visible in the city as the group moved on toward \u014cp\u014dtiki.<\/p>\n
Police said a 30-year-old man was arrested after police responded to a report of suspicious behaviour on Aquarius Drive.<\/p>\n
He was charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of utensils for drug use, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of an offensive weapon, and is due to reappear in the Rotorua District Court at the end of the month.<\/p>\n
In a separate incident in the evening, police spotted a vehicle in the Western Heights area that had been reported stolen the previous day.<\/p>\n
When signalled to stop, the driver allegedly fled, prompting police to pursue.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was spiked and brought to a stop at Harrold Cres, where two youths were arrested.<\/p>\n
Police also arrested three people on outstanding warrants, and another for breaching court-imposed conditions.<\/p>\n
One person had their vehicle impounded and was summoned to court for driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n
Inspector Tristan Murray said the presence of officers monitoring the gang gathering did not mean other offending would go unnoticed.<\/p>\n
Police urged anyone witnessing illegal behaviour to call 111 immediately. Non-urgent reports could be made through 105, either online or by phone, or anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers were expected to remain visible in the city as the group moved on toward \u014cp\u014dtiki. Police said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31746,1328,57982,111,43,139,69,675,1327,5659,202,61,88248],"class_list":["post-327263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-arrests","tag-gang","tag-gathering","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rotorua","tag-say","tag-seven","tag-to","tag-unrelated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327263","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=327263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}