Two teenagers have been arrested after allegedly stealing 35 vehicle thefts across T\u016brangi, all of which occurred in recent months.<\/p>\n
Police said it was made aware of around 35 vehicle thefts in the small town south of Taup\u014d, calling it a “huge” and “extraordinary” number.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Craig Dalton said two searches connected to the offending were carried out on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Two teens, aged 15 and 13, who are “known Mongrel Mob associates” were arrested. <\/p>\n
Officers also seized a gun, air rifles, and cannabis growing equipment.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old is due to reappear in Taup\u014d Youth Court on 18 June facing 11 charges related to vehicle thefts.<\/p>\n
The 13-year-old has been referred to Youth Aid.<\/p>\n
Two older men were also arrested and will face separate charges. <\/p>\n
“Two further men \u2013 one being a patched Mongrel Mob member and the other an associate \u2013 were arrested in relation to other offending incidental to the search warrants.\u201d<\/p>\n
One 38-year-old man has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, and is expected to appear in court at a later date. <\/p>\n
The other, a 40-year-old, was charged with contravening a protection order. He was due to reappear in Taup\u014d District Court on August 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know vehicle theft is an incredibly frustrating crime for our community, so I am pleased we are able to hold these alleged offenders to account. I hope these arrests reassure the community that Police take this type of offending seriously.”<\/p>\n
“Police continue to make inquiries and cannot rule out further arrests or charges.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers have been arrested after allegedly stealing 35 vehicle thefts across T\u016brangi, all of which occurred in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-475046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475046","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=475046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}