A property has been seized in the Bay of Plenty town of Kawerau today after a large police operation.<\/p>\n
Police supported the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in taking possession of a Newall St property that had been forfeited following a lengthy court process.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Lindsay Pilbrow said the property was occupied by the son of a former Mongrel Mob Kawerau President arrested as part of a 2018 operation targeting the chapter’s methamphetamine distribution.<\/p>\n
More than 50 people were arrested in the operation, including senior members of the Kawerau Mongrel Mob leadership, with over $4 million in assets restrained.<\/p>\n
The Tauranga High Court ordered the forfeiture of the property alongside the proceeds of the sale of a Ford Ranger ute.<\/p>\n
Both assets were found to have been purchased with money obtained through significant criminal activity, namely from the sale and supply of methamphetamine and cannabis.<\/p>\n
“At the time, this operation significantly disrupted a group of people who were causing a significant amount of harm to the community,” Pilbrow said.<\/p>\n
“Police remain committed to targeting assets that are obtained by criminal behaviour.<\/p>\n
“We want to reassure our communities that police will also continue to target and disrupt groups and individuals that align themselves with those who profit from the proceeds of crime.”<\/p>\n
A 34-year-old man was taken into custody during the operation and he will appear in the Rotorua High Court today for contempt of court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A property has been seized in the Bay of Plenty town of Kawerau today after a large police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-448715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448715","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=448715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}