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Drugs and cash evidence of large scale dealing
Cash and drugs worth about half a million dollars were found in a Christchurch police swoop, the Crown said as a 44-year-old pleaded guilty. Michael Heron admitted possession of methamphetamine for...
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Date rape drug used by meth dealer, Crown claims
The Crown alleges the date rape drug GHB may have been used on a woman by her meth dealer before he raped her in her Greymouth home. The woman began giving her account of the alleged sex attack in...
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Alleged shooting victim gets more time for court appearance
Police were refused an arrest warrant when a man allegedly shot in a gang incident on March 30 failed to appear on other charges at the Christchurch District Court today because of his injuries. The...
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Marriage scammer to stay in Australia for sentencing
For the second time, Immigration New Zealand has stymied the sentencing of a marriage scam fraudster by refusing her entry into the country. The sentencing was meant to take place in the Christchurch...
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Marylands abuse victim sentenced for violation
A man who endured more than a decade of childhood sexual abuse at Marylands special school has been granted home detention after admitting a drunken sexual violation. The 55-year-old suffers from...
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Fraudster has two weeks to get money for victims
A fraudster has been given two weeks to come up with the $3750 she conned out of two victims, or face a possible jail sentence. Ann-Marie Kathrine Smith, a mother aged 30, says she will have access to...
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Guilty verdicts in historic sex trial
A jury has accepted two women’s evidence of sex offending dating back as far as the 1950s, and convicted a 77-year-old man on eight charges. Justice David Gendall also lifted name suppression on Sidney...
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Hung jury in drug and rape trial
A jury has been unable to reach agreement in the seven-day trial of a 31-year-old meth dealer charged with stupefying and raping a woman on the West Coast in 2014. The jury deliberated from 3.30pm...
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22-year-old admits cheating woman out of $75,000
A 22-year-old has admitted manipulating and deceiving an older woman into giving her over $75,000, and then spending the money on clothing, makeup, alcohol, concerts, accommodation, and flights. The...
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Arrest warrant issued for absent fraudster
An arrest warrant has been issued for fraudster Ann-Marie Kathrine Smith who was in Christchurch Hospital when she was due at court to be sentenced and to repay her victims. Christchurch District Court...
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Teen on false complaint charge
A teenager who allegedly told the police she had been abducted for sex was charged with making a false statement, in the Christchurch District Court. The 17-year-old was granted name suppression, and...
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Bogus social worker jailed for sex offending
A man who posed as a social worker to groom a group of teenage runaways and the did an indecent act on one of the boys as he slept has been jailed for two years. The man continues to deny the offending...
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Teen captured by public during robbery attempt
A teenager who was captured while attempting to rob the Campus Corner Dairy in Upper Riccarton has been jailed for one year ten months. Quade Mihaere Kavanagh was with an alleged co-offender who was...
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Convicted fraudster shows up
Convicted fraudster Ann-Marie Kathrine Smith has made an appearance at the Christchurch District Court office a day after a warrant was issued for her arrest because of a sentencing no-show. The...
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Trio deny ecstasy importation
Three foreign visitors have denied involvement in a 5kg drug importation intercepted at Christchurch International Airport three weeks ago. The not guilty pleas to charges of importation of MDMA –...
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Fraudster in custody ahead of sentencing
Convicted fraudster Ann-Marie Kathrine Smith will spend 11 days in custody ahead of her Christchurch District Court sentencing, after failing to appear on Wednesday. She was taken into custody at the...
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Driver sentenced for Canterbury leg of chase
An Invercargill 20-year-old has been given 80 hours of community work for the Canterbury leg of his 720km South Island journey that involved three police pursuits. Christchurch District Court Judge...
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14-year 6-month term for cocaine importation
File image. © Andrew Bardwell Thirty-four-year-old Lee Dixon has begun a 14-year 6-month jail term for importing cocaine that would have been worth up to $2.4 million on the streets, while he was on...
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Deer poacher fined $1000
A man caught butchering a stag that had been shot on private property admitted the poaching charge, and was fined in the Christchurch District Court. Darrell Maurice Smith, a 53-year-old shearer, and...
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Dairy raider faces long jail term
A 25-year-old faces serving all of the jail term he gets for an armed dairy raid where the owner and his wife fought back. Edward Paul Paterson is a second-strike offender who pleaded guilty to an...
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