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Woman jailed for prison meth ring 2010-09-06
A woman has been jailed for her part in helping a methamphetamine importation ring operating from inside Rimutaka prison.Sara McSweeney, 29, appeared in the High Court at Wellington today for sentence on five charges of importing...
Police bust Northland meth lab 2010-09-03
Northland police have raided and shut down an operating methamphetamine lab in Whangarei.Around 30 police, including the Armed Offenders Squad, executed a search warrant at a Kamo Road address around 2:30pm and discovered the...
Grandma remanded after 400g P bust 2010-09-01
A 54-year-old grandmother has appeared in court after police allegedly seized methamphetamine and other drugs in her possession at Wellington Airport yesterday.Susan Horrobin, unemployed, of Wellington was remanded in custody...
Woman found at airport with drugs worth $400k 2010-09-01
A woman was arrested at Wellington Airport yesterday after being found with more than $400,000 worth of drugs in her possession.Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Warwick McKee said the woman was arrested at around 2.30pm after...
Order leads to drugs 2010-09-01
Police in Hamilton who issued a safety order, used when there is not enough evidence to make an arrest but when police suspect taking no action would result in domestic violence, have made a drugs bust. Officers who took a woman...
Choppers seized by police 2010-08-29
Nine motorbikes worth up to $50,000 each were seized from a West Auckland warehouse this week by police investigating the criminal activities of a man accused of manufacturing methamphetamine.The Harley Davidson and American Chopper...
I'm innocent, jailed P granddad insists 2010-08-28
A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still insists he is innocent.Speaking exclusively to the Weekend Herald , Samuel Ross Pulman said he believed he was part of an undercover...
I'm innocent, says P granddad as he goes to jail 2010-08-28
A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still insists he is innocent.Speaking exclusively to the Weekend Herald , Samuel Ross Pulman said he believed he was part of an undercover...
'P'pharmacist Pulman jailed for five years 2010-08-27
A pillar of the Pukekohe community has been jailed for five years and eight months after supplying restricted cold medicine which he knew would be turned into P.Samuel Ross Pulman in May pleaded guilty to a representative charge...
Sales ban on P pills 2010-08-26
Over-the-counter sales of cold tablets containing the methamphetamine precursors ephedrine and pseudoephedrine will be banned under a bill given its first reading in Parliament last night. Drugmakers use the pills for the illegal...
'Pete the terrorist'asleep at mum's retirement unit 2010-08-21
An east Auckland retirement village is not the sort of place you'd expect to find a feared underworld figure nicknamed "Pete the terrorist".But it was at St Andrew's Village, in upmarket Glendowie, where police finally caught...
Revealed: NZ's thriving underbelly 2010-08-21
As Jason Boon lay in his coffin, Terry* made a promise to his dead friend.The 26-year-old Boon was bound, gagged and choked to death in his own home while his terrified fiancee and young daughter hid in a bathroom upstairs. The...
Police bust 'significant'P lab 2010-08-19
Police busted a "very significant"methamphetamine laboratory in rural Coromandel on Tuesday, one of seven P labs closed down after a coordinated series of raids in the North Island.The media was today given a peek at some of...
Man accused of importing pseudoephedrine 2010-08-19
A 24-year-old Chinese man has appeared in court charged with importing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the manufacture of methamphetamine.Wei Hong Zheng appeared in the Auckland District Court today facing two charges, one...
P-lab busted in Auckland 2010-08-19
Police have busted a P-lab in the Auckland suburb of Penrose this morning.Officers are at the scene in Oranga Avenue but few details are available.The bust comes
Children found in raid on six P labs 2010-08-19
Several children have been found at addresses where six labs manufacturing methamphetamine and Ecstasy were found by police in raids across the North Island.More than 200 investigators executed 22 search warrants under the Misuse...
'Major players'arrested in P busts 2010-08-18
Police have found 140 grams of meth, also known as P, as well as loaded guns and a crossbow as part of a nationwide bust yesterday.Police executed 22 search warrants across Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Wellington and found...
Man jailed over nine years for killing toddler 2010-08-12
A Northland man who admitted more than 20 serious drug charges, and was found guilty of the manslaughter of a toddler, has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years.Kyle Skerten was sentenced today at the High Court in Whangarei.In...
Five more appear after major drug bust 2010-08-10
Five more people arrested in connection with an Asian drug ring have appeared in court in Auckland today.The five men appeared in Auckland District Court facing representative charges of manufacturing and supplying methamphetamine.They...
P-making equipment found in BOP 2010-08-10
Equipment and chemicals used to make methamphetamine were found in the Bay of Plenty with the help of a concerned member of the public.Police today said after receiving a call from someone, they were able to locate two plastic...
Death of drug-taking truck driver highlights risks 2010-08-08
Long-haul truck drivers are being caught driving after taking P, posing a huge danger on the roads.This week a Rotorua trucking firm sacked a driver who had twice tested positive for methamphetamine use.Other Rotorua companies...
Warrants executed on BOP P labs 2010-08-06
Armed police found drug paraphernalia in raids on two suspected P labs in the Bay of Plenty this morning.More than 30 police, including the Rotorua and Tauranga armed offenders squads, executed search warrants at houses in Whakatane...
Police tip bloodshed as rivals protect turf 2010-07-31
Turf wars between gangs, Asian organised crime and street dealers could end with spilled blood, say police, as criminals increasingly arm themselves in a bid to control Auckland's drug trade.The warning comes as armed police hunt...
Customs link in smugglers'$17m P plot 2010-07-31
A Customs broker has been charged with helping smuggle drugs worth up to $17 million in machine parts arriving at Auckland International Airport.Bo "Kevin"Niu appeared in Auckland District Court this week charged with possession...
Net closes around biggest P ring 2010-07-24
Nearly $1 million in cash and a prized sports car have been seized from the man alleged to sit at the top of an organised crime ring importing and distributing P around New Zealand.When police raided the suburban North Shore home...
Man in court over sex charges while on bail 2010-07-21
A man who allegedly drugged and raped a woman escort after he was given electronic bail to live at a holiday park north of Auckland has been remanded in custody to reappear next month.Paulus Nieuwenhuiysen, 49, appeared in the...
Police face surge in armed P dealers 2010-07-21
The head of the Police Association says the number of P dealers arming themselves has increased tenfold and is good reason for arming frontline police officers.In an opinion piece in today's Herald , Greg O'Connor says police...
Jury for drugs trial 2010-07-20
A jury has been selected for the trial of a man accused of supplying methamphetamine. Daniel Crichton, 39, pleaded not guilty in the High Court at Auckland yesterday to 10 charges of supplying methamphetamine and one charge of...
Big P raid nets cash, drugs, guns 2010-07-17
Nearly $250,000 cash, $5 million of drugs and guns were seized from an alleged crime syndicate whose members had day jobs as plasterers and plaster board-stoppers.The methamphetamine bust was described by police as one of the...
Huge drug shipment went to Fiji via NZ 2010-07-16
Millions of dollars worth of precursor drugs seized in Fiji in a mid-week bust passed through New Zealand, say Fiji police.They said the white powder seized was worth $F5.5 million ($NZ2.8m), and would have been used to make methamphetamine...
$5m worth of P seized in Auckland 2010-07-16
Police have seized $5 million worth of methamphetamine during a bust targeting Asian organised crime in Auckland this morning.Five kilograms of methamphetamine, or P, two kilos of ContacNT valued at $500,000, and $236,000 in cash,...
Children found at Bay of Plenty P-lab 2010-07-15
Police arrested 12 people in the western Bay of Plenty today after executing 12 search warrants in an operation targeting drugs and stolen property.One search of an address on Glue Pot Rd, at Oropi, south of Tauranga, found a...
Police raid Tauranga P-lab 2010-07-15
Armed police used the cover of darkness to raid a suspected P-lab in Tauranga this morning.The Tauranga Armed Offenders Squad went to the Glue Pot Road house before dawn and appealed for a man to come out of the house.Tauranga...
Seven Chinese men in court on drugs charges 2010-07-12
Seven Chinese-born men facing charges after the seizure of a container with methamphetamine precursors with a street value estimated at $3 million inside were back in court today.Jin Hui Cai, Chen Chen, Ka Ho Kao, Jia Hua Shan,...
Mike Williams: Positives of P education programme outweigh negatives 2010-07-12
Thanks to the NZ Herald for highlighting the Stellar Trust's anti-methamphetamine education programme in schools with drug educator Pat Buckley.Inevitably, Andrew Laxon's well-researched article drew criticism from Dr Chris...
Three arrested over methamphetamine 2010-07-09
Three Dunedin men have been arrested for manufacturing methamphetamine after a month-long police investigation.The men were arrested as they drove into Dunedin after manufacturing the drug at a house in North Otago, Senior Sergeant...
Casino drug dealer jailed for 18 years 2010-07-01
A man who ran a drugs operation out of the Sky City casino in Auckland has been jailed for 18 years.Tac Kin Voong, 47, was earlier this year found guilty on a number of methamphetamine charges in the High Court at Auckland.He...
P cook, dealer gets 12 years for 'unprecedented misery' 2010-06-28
A methamphetamine cook has been jailed for 12 years for making and dealing a drug that had caused "unprecedented misery and destruction to New Zealand society".Lee Richard Oswald Bell, 42, pleaded guilty to 36 charges that included...
Racing: Waddell banned for 14 months at P inquiry 2010-06-28
After a routine drug test at Ellerslie at the Auckland Racing Club meeting on May 26, Environmental Science and Research (ESR) reported that a urine sample provided by Waikato jockey Jason Waddell was positive to methamphetamine (P).A...
Guilty verdicts for last of the SkyCity P ring 2010-06-28
The final player in the multimillion-dollar P ring that used SkyCity as an office has been convicted after the covert police inquiry that has already sent 12 co-offenders to prison for 95 years.Di Wu was found guilty on three...
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