Cam Stokes GANGSCENE

TIMELINE

This shows New Zealand gang incidents which were reported in the local news media. It's very much the tip of the iceberg. Many gang arrests aren’t reported in the media and many gang crimes aren’t reported to the police, because victims are too scared.

It shows offences committed by gang members. The phrase “gang associate” is a wide-ranging law enforcement term for people who are linked to a gang in some way. Politicians often use the words “gang members and their associates” when quoting statistics about the number of gang prosecutions. An “associate” usually refers to a person who is connected through crime but it can also include those who are connected through friends and family, cars or motorbikes, legitimate business interests, sport and social or other interests.

Gangs say that the police often claim people are “gang associates” when they have no actual gang connection, or when the link to the gang is unrelated to the alleged offending. On this site I’ve stuck to what gang members have done. Offending by associates isn’t included unless it’s for a serious offence committed in the presence of a gang member. It should be stressed that “associates” do much of a gang’s dirty-work and they couldn’t survive without them.

The police media policy is generally not to name gangs involved in incidents because it may attract people to them. I don’t agree with this at all and think the police should make more of their successes. The Aussies do a much better job and have a press release all set to go every time they arrest a gang member. Why not tell the public what they are getting up to?

This section is a work in progress and I will update it monthly.

DISCLAIMER

This list features offending done by members of patch-wearing gangs and does not include youth gangs or other organised crime groups.

If the date of the incident is unknown, the date of publication is used.

Names are included where they have been published in the news media. Some of the incidents mentioned are currently before the courts and the allegations are unproven. All persons are presumed innocent until convicted.

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DATE	GANG	DETAILS
23/01/09	Mongrel Mob	34 year old Mark McCutcheon was fatally stabbed in Hawkes Bay by a Mongrel Mob associate after he tried to break up a domestic dispute involving a Mongrel Mob member and a female. Hulio Ataria was charged with murder.
27/01/09	Mongrel Mob v Tribesman MC	16 year old Jordan Robert Herewini was killed after he was struck by a stolen vehicle driven by a Mongrel Mob member, following an earlier confrontation between members of the Mongrel Mob and Tribesmen MC in Murupara. Members of the Tribesmen had assaulted Mob members and stolen their vehicle. The Mob armed themselves and went to a Murupara address where they smashed up the house and a vehicle in the driveway. Jordan was killed when he was run over after he was mistaken for a Tribesmen member, although he was not a member of any gang. Kawerau Mobster Quentin Pukeroa was charged with murder. He was also charged with attempted murder, injuring with intent to cause GBH and assault. Pukeroa was jointly charged with 11 others with aggravated burglary and participating in an organised criminal group.
16/02/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Marcel Jeremiah Bell was sentenced to 21 months jail when he appeared in the Wellington High Court for hitting an 18 year old man in the head with a hammer and for selling cannabis and methamphetamine to an undercover cop.
20/02/09	Mongrel Mob	Six Mongrel Mob members and associates were sentenced in the Wellington High Court over the death of Jhia Te Tua. The Wanganui two year old was killed in a drive-by shooting in May 2007 following a clash between the Mongrel Mob and Black Power. Karl Check, Hayden Wallace and Ranji Forbes were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Godfrey Muraahi was sentenced to 10 1/2 years jail for manslaughter, Erueti Nahona was sentenced to 10 1/4 years jail for manslaughter and Richard Puohotaua was sentenced to 3 years jail for participation in an organised criminal group.
20/02/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Tremaine Paul was sentenced to 3 1/4 years jail in the Hamilton High Court for possession of cannabis for supply and selling cannabis.
21/02/09	Mongrel Mob v Black Power	A large fight broke out between about 40 members of the Mongrel Mob and Black Power in Gisborne.
04/03/09	Black Power v Mongrel Mob	Black Power members attacked a Mongrel Mob member walking along a Dunedin street. Black Power member Allan Waru Kukutai was arrested for possession of an offensive weapon. A Mongrel Mob member was arrested for a minor drug offence.
06/03/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob prospect Gareth Robert Ferguson was sentenced to 6 weeks jail for threatening behaviour likely to cause violence following a gang confrontation outside the Dunedin District Court.
07/03/09	Black Power v Mongrel Mob	The president of the Dunedin Mongrel Mob was stabbed in the chest at Milburn Prison in Otago. Two members of the Black Power were charged in connection with the incident.
10/03/09	Mongrel Mob	Porirua Mongrel Mob member Charlie Karaka was convicted of murder following the stabbing of Fitzgerald Risati in December 2007. Karaka was looking for Crips gang members who had stolen his patch when he stabbed Mr Risati in the heart in a case of mistaken identity. Karaka was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.
12/03/09	Black Power	Nine people were arrested following the termination of a police operation codenamed Operation Sutomo in South Auckland. All were members or associates of the Black Power. Police executed seven search warrants and located $75 000 worth of meth (P), $100 000 cash, firearms, cannabis and stolen property. Eight were charged with conspiracy to supply meth and one was charged with selling methamphetamine.
14/03/09	Red Devils MC Hells Angels MC	The Red Devils MC announced their presence in New Zealand with a Poker Run in Nelson which was attended by members of the Hells Angels and Head Hunters. The Nelson based gang is a “puppet club” for the Hells Angels.
23/03/09	Black Power	A Black Power clubhouse in Mt Wellington, Auckland was forfeited to the crown under Proceeds of Crime legislation. The forfeiture was in connection with the conviction of Black Power president Mark Pitman who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years jail in September 2008 for his part in a million dollar cannabis selling operation.
28/05/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Andrew Popo was sentenced to 8 3/4 years jail for manslaughter following the death of police sergeant Derek Wootton in July 2008. Sergeant Wootton was laying road spikes when he was struck by a stolen car driven by Popo.
28/05/09	Mongrel Mob	Two Mongrel Mob members were sentenced for their role in gate crashing a 21st birthday party in Hastings in June 2008. Five people were injured when a group of Mongrel Mob members entered a crowd of about 100 people and attacked them with a machete, knives and baseball bats. Paul Ropiha and George Hapuku were sentenced to 9 years jail. Two had already been sentenced. John Blane received 8 years jail and Tutere Hohepa Te Moana 5 years jail.
09/06/09	Nomads	Nomad president Dennis Hines died in Waikeria Prison of natural causes. Hines had been serving a sentence for conspiracy to supply methamphetamine. Hines death lead to serious internal conflict between members of the Nomads. This included several shootings, fire-bombings and serious assaults. At least seven people were arrested on a variety of charges including discharging firearms.
13/06/09	Mongrel Mob	A group of Mongrel Mob members attacked a number of young people at a Blenheim address after a female Mob associate was refused entry to a party. One person was hit on the head with a bottle and was taken to hospital. Four people were arrested, one for assault and three for disorderly behaviour. There was a further incident where Mongrel Mob members returned to the address and attacked the occupants as they were cleaning up. Three people were arrested for unlawful assembly.
18/06/09	Black Power v Mongrel Mob	Two Black Power members were arrested following a gang brawl involving hammers, an axe and golf clubs outside a Napier supermarket. Two Mongrel Mob members were taken to hospital after they were attacked. One was run over by a car as he lay injured on the ground. Karl Gibbons and Zaran Elers were charged with wounding with intent to cause GBH and participating in an organised criminal group. Four others were subsequently charged.
12/07/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Andre Jade Hansen pleaded guilty in the Rotorua District Court to possession of an offensive weapon and breach of a liquor ban. The judge ordered that he forfeit his Mongrel Mob patch. The destruction order was to be appealed by his lawyer.
05/08/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Thomas William Milligan had his appeal denied. He was sentenced to five years and seven months' jail in 2008 for the stupefaction and sexual violation of a 15-year-old girl. He had appealed his convictions on the grounds that he didn't receive a fair hearing due to adverse publicity when his membership in the Mongrel Mob was revealed in the media.
06/08/09	Tribesmen MC	Police executed in series of search warrants in Auckland in connection to the aggravated robbery of a motorbike shop in Kihikihi, near Te Awamutu on 28/07/09. A number of Harley Davidson motorbikes were stolen. One person was arrested for aggravated robbery and illegal possession of a firearm. Some of the stolen bikes were recovered.
06/08/09	Mongrel Mob	Rotorua Mongrel Mob member William Palmer was jailed for 2 weeks for contempt of court after yelling gang slogans and barking during a court appearance.
18/09/09	Black Power	Black Power member Hari Beaudean Poulson and prospect Anthony Hemana were found guilty of the murder of 28 year old Ollie Gage at Waharoa on 27/07/08. They were also found guilty of attempting to murder Lotoa Aliimatafitafi. Black Power member Jared Apiata pleaded guilty to both charges. The victims were drinking outside a Waharoa house when Apiata, Poulson and Hemana drove past and fired at them following an earlier confrontation.
31/08/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob prospects Ranginui Rahi and Mark Hati broke into an Opotiki house armed with a baseball bat and a piece of wood. They crept into a bedroom to steal a laptop and found a 22 year old female who they brutally raped and forced to perform indecencies on them. They were sentenced to nine years jail for rape and sexual violation on 13/11/09.
22/09/09	Mongrel Mob	Judianne Tito pleaded guilty to smuggling two caps of cannabis oil into Rimutaka prison for her boyfriend, Mongrel Mob member, Andrew Popo who is serving time for manslaughter (See 28/05/09)
25/09/09	Highway 61 MC	Highway 61 member Dean Waka Nathan pleaded guilty in Christchurch District Court to charges of supplying methamphetamine and conspiring to supply meth from inside Christchurch Men's Prison. He is yet to be sentenced. In 2001 Nathan was one of four Highway 61 members convicted of the murder of Black Power member Max Shannon.
29/09/09	Black Power	Black Power member William Katipa escaped from a medium security unit at Waikeria prison after scaling a security fence. He was recaptured the following day and charged with escaping a penal institute.
03/10/09	Mongrel Mob	17 year old Murupara youth Kaine Ernest Lewis died after he was assaulted following a clash between members of the Mongrel Mob and Tribesmen. Eight Mob members or associates were arrested in connection to the incident. Five were charged with murder. (More details will be included once they become available).
22/10/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Rongomaiaia Kaka was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to cause GBH following a brawl at Hawkes Bay prison on 23/06/09 when a group of Mob members attacked their Black Power rivals. Kaka stomped the head of a Black Power member causing life-threatening injuries. He is due to be sentenced on 18/11/09.
28/10/09	Tribesmen MC	Members of the Tribesmen MC were targeted in the first ever operation by the Organised and Financial Crime Agency (OFCANZ). Raids took place in Northland and Auckland. Up to 14 people will be arrested and will face 160 charges relating to selling, supplying and conspiracy to supply and manufacture methamphetamine. (More details will be included once they become available)..
30/10/09	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Tosh Marley Te Tomo was sentenced to 2 years jail for participating in an organised crime group. His offending took place during the lead-up to the death of 16-year-old Jordan Herewini. (See 27/01/09.) Te Tomo wasn’t present when Jordan was run over but he was involved in planning the retaliation against the Tribesmen. He also received 6 months jail for unlawful possession of a 12 gauge double-barrelled shotgun and 4 months for unlawfully possessing explosives (9 shotgun cartridges) following a police raid on his home.
06/11/09	Mongrel Mob	Hastings Mongrel Mob members Patrick Shaun Edmonds and Joseph Rikki Pritchard were convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and were sentenced to preventative detention for an attack at the Hastings Mob pad on 08/06/08. The victim was knocked to the ground and kicked and punched about 50 times. The Judge described the attack as a “cowardly and brutal” assault. This is one of the few times that preventative detention has been given for gang violence. Edmonds and Pritchard both had previous convictions for serious violence.
07/11/09	Black Power v Mongrel Mob	Up to 20 Black Power members and associates attacked an out of town Mongrel Mob member with Iron bars and clubs in the carpark of the KFC store in Hawera. The victim refused to make a complaint.
09/11/09	Mongrel Mob v Road Knights MC	Five members of the Invercargill Mongrel Mob were sentenced to jail following an attack on the Road Knights headquarters on 18/06/08. The Mobsters broke in and poured petrol throughout the clubhouse then set it on fire. They were unaware that an associate of the Road Knights was hiding inside the pad. The Mob members stole two Harley Davidsons and some Road Knights patches and took them back to their pad. Police saw the stolen Harleys but the Mobsters smashed them up and set them on fire in full view of the police while they were obtaining a search warrant. The judge said the incident harmed the image of Invercargill through adverse publicity and the presence of armed police on the streets for more than three weeks. Mob president Shaun Te Kahu was sentenced to five years and nine months jail. Barry James Pennicott received four years and 11 months jail. Pihama John Tauroa got four years, Craig Arthur Reid got three years and Joshua William Edwards got three years jail
12/11/09	Head Hunters MC	Notorious double murderer Graeme Burton was convicted of the attempted murder of fellow inmate Head Hunters patchmember Dwayne Marsh at Paremoremo Prison. On 20/12/08 Burton stabbed Marsh seven times and one of the wounds punctured Marsh's heart and only emergency surgery saved his life.
12/11/09	Black Power v Mongrel Mob	A car driven by a Mongrel Mob member in Dunedin was attacked by Black Power members and its windows were smashed with an axe. No complaint was made to the Police. Three hours later a vehicle belonging to a Black Power associate was attacked in retaliation. Two Mob members were arrested for intentional damage.
18/11/09	Head Hunters MC	Head Hunters patchmember Tuale Joe Fuimaono (also known as Timothy Sasagi Vitale) was found guilty of the manslaughter of Bjorn Justin Henderson and was sentenced to eight years jail. Ahmad Matlobyaygazwini received seven years and Head Hunters prospect Ali Rafiee got six years jail. On 10/03/08 Bjorn Henderson was lured to an address in Ellerslie because he had earlier robbed Matlobyaygazwini of a large amount of P and cash from a Newmarket hotel room. He was chased and caught by Matlobyaygazwini, Fuimaono and Rafiee. Fuimaono inflicted several heavy blows to his head with a stick causing his brain to bleed. He was dumped at hospital but died of his injuries.
18/11/09	Black Power, Mongrel Mob and Nomads.	Methamphetamine, ecstasy, cannabis, guns and cases of ammunition were seized by police following a series of raids in Taupo, Tokoroa and Putaruru. 24 people were arrested including members of the Black Power, Mongrel Mob and Nomads gangs.
25/11/09	Hells Angels MC	Police raided the Wanganui Hells Angels clubhouse following an aggravated burglary at a Wanganui address on 03/10/09 when a female was assaulted and firearms were stolen. A Hells Angel was arrested for possession of a small amount of cannabis which was found at the clubhouse and another Hells Angel was charged with threatening to kill. A Wanganui man was charged in connection with the burglary and faces charges including aggravated burglary, commission of a crime with a firearm, wounding with intent to cause GBH and threatening to kill. A Wanganui woman was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
04/12/09	Mongrel Mob	Hamilton Mongrel Mob members Rocky James Manga, Mose Iakopoand Michael Ormsby and Mob associate Priscilla Hayward-Howie were found guilty of conspiracy to supply methamphetamine after a five week trial. Manga, Ormsby and Hayward-Howie were also found guilty of conspiracy to sell cannabis and Ormsby was also convicted of conspiracy to supply lysergide (LSD). On 15/03/10 Ormsby was jailed for seven years and Iakopo and Manga each received 3 years 6 months imprisonment. Hayward-Howie was sentenced to two years' jail.
09/12/09	Black Power	Police executed five search warrants at various Mangu Kaha (Black Power) gang addresses in Christchurch and located drugs and stolen property. Members of the Mangu Kaha gang were charged with property and drug offences.
11/12/09	Black Power v Mongrel Mob	Wanganui Black Power patchmember Daniel Craig Rippon and gang associates Clarke James McCallum, Jamie Ngahuia Ahsin and Raeleen Matewai Rameka were found guilty of the murder of Paul Shane Kumeroa. The victim was mistaken for a Mongrel Mob member and was punched and hit over the head with an axe or baseball bat by the four on 23/09/08. The group had gone looking for Mob Mongrel members following an incident at the Countdown Supermarket earlier on 23/09/08 when a Mob member threw supermarket baskets at McCallum.
16/12/09	Black Power	Police raided a number of Black Power addresses in South Auckland and located $70,000 worth of drugs as well as firearms and stolen property. 20 people were arrested and face a range of charges including supplying class A and C drugs.
14/01/10	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Shannon Watene was arrested in Hastings after 11 days on the run from the police after he threatened a woman with a gun. He was charged with threatening to kill and firearms charges.
29/01/10	Mongrel Mob	Two police officers were knocked unconscious in an altercation with a pair of gang members after they were "set upon" on the footbath outside a house in Gisborne. The officers were taken to Gisborne Hospital suffering cuts, bruises and scratches to the head and neck. Two men have been arrested in relation to the incident and face serious assault charges.
02/02/10	Mongrel Mob	Mob members were part of a group of people who tried to flee from fishery officers after been caught trying to poach paua near Kaikoura. About 40 paua, (many of them undersized) were dumped back into the sea by the group when they saw fisheries officers watching. Police helped apprehend them when they tried to get away.
04/02/10	Black Power	Black Power member Te Mana Rakatau was jailed for five years for the rape of a 10-year-old girl in a toilet block at a Waikato marae in 2008 when he was aged 15.
10/02/10	Killer Beez	Killer Beez member Eric Paki-Edwards was sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment on one representative charge of supplying methamphetamine. He was arrested following a police bugging operation, code-named Leo, that started in late 2007. Police intercepted more than 110,000 phone and text messages between the Killer Beez and Tribesmen gang members during a major three-month drug operation in South Auckland and the Waikato.
13/02/10	Mongrel Mob	Elias Pikikotu Simeon was jailed for six-and-half years and Jordan James Ataria was jailed for six years for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and unlawful assembly for their part in a gang attack on 29/06/02. A group of 15 to 20 Mongrel Mob members and associates went to a Gisborne address looking for members of the Black Power gang however they went to the wrong address. They yelled out abuse and Mob slogans and the victim walked down his driveway to investigate. He was punched in the head and struck by a hockey stick causing him to fall to the ground, where the attack continued. He was punched, kicked and hit on the head with a bottle and suffered injuries including a fractured eye socket.
16/02/10	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob prospect Hulio Henry Ataria was found guilty of murdering Mark Allan McCutcheon on January 23rd 2009. He stabbed the victim three times outside the Sandford Arms Tavern in Ongaonga following a dispute involving the victim and a Mob patchmember.
17/02/10	Mongrel Mob	Hamilton Mongrel Mob member Sonny Fatu and Elizabeth Rangi were sentenced at the High Court in Hamilton on a charge of conspiracy to supply morphine. Rangi was sentenced to 275 hours' community work and Fatu was convicted and discharged. Fatu had spent nearly two years in custody.
18/02/10	Mongrel Mob	A Mongrel Mob member and an Auckland woman were arrested after Gisborne police seized an estimated $30,000 worth of methamphetamine and $11,000 cash in a drug bust at Wainui.
18/02/10	Mongrel Mob	Wanted Mongrel Mob member Lance Waite was arrested by the Rotorua police and subsequently pleaded guilty to three serious sex charges in relation to the abduction and sexual violation of a woman in Gisborne on 13/02/10. A well-concealed sawn-off shotgun and a small amount of cannabis were also located in the vehicle which Waite was in at the time of his arrest.
26/02/10	Mongrel Mob	A group of about 10 people, including members of the Mongrel Mob, threatened a police dog handler and attempted to surround him after he tracked a suspect from a burglary of a Flaxmere bottle store straight to a Mongrel Mob party. The two men were charged with unlawful assembly.
18/03/10	Mongrel Mob	Taupo Mongrel Mob member Raymond Rehua was sentenced to 20 months jail for offering to sell cannabis, possession of cannabis for supply, unlawful possession of a firearm and three charges of selling cannabis. Rehua was arrested on the drug charges following an undercover police operation. Police found a sawn-off shotgun hidden in the ceiling of his home as well as nine cannabis “tinnies”.
23/03/10	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Jason Stewart Gemmell was sentenced to 13 months' jail after pleading guilty to charges of robbery and disorderly behaviour. On 10/12/09 Gemmell told an elderly female motorist he would kick her in the head when she tooted her horn after he walked slowly in front of her car in Hastings. He swore at her and kicked her car. On 19/01/10 Gemmell jumped from his car and robbed a 15-year-old boy of his cell phone and $20.
13/04/10	Black Power	Two Black Power members and a prospect were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Waharoa man Ollie Gage on 27/07/08. Hari Poulson was sentenced to a minimum non-parole period of 12 years. Jared Apiata and prospect Anthony Hemana received non-parole periods of 11 years six months. The victim Ollie Gage was drinking outside a Waharoa house when Apiata, Poulson and Hemana drove past and began firing. He was hit four times and died at the scene. Earlier that night he had been at a party with a group of friends when they were set upon by Apiata and others because Mr Gage was wearing a jacket with red markings. Addressing the packed public gallery, Justice Williams asked how many more people would have to suffer before communities decide "this red and blue stupidity" must stop. "Conflict and competition between blue and red is a cancer in our society," he said.
15/04/10	Highway 61 MC	Highway 61 member James Arthur Brown and associate Trinity Elijah Duffy were convicted of kidnapping and blackmailing a man who was forced to hand over his car as payment for a $5500 drug debt in June 2009. Brown also admitted injuring the victim by assaulting him with a length of timber. Brown was jailed for three years four months and Duffy received two years 10 months. The victim was confronted, put in a car, and repeatedly punched. Brown then attacked him with the piece of wood. The victim received five stitches to his head and bruising to his face and legs. Justice Fogarty said Brown had a deplorable criminal history including assault with intent to injure in 1994 and 2006, and intentional injuring in 2003.
21/04/10	Mongrel Mob	Police executed nine search warrants in Dunedin and Oamaru and arrested two Mongrel Mob members and six associates following a six-month investigation. Those arrested faced a variety of charges, including participation in an organised criminal enterprise, conspiracy to supply cannabis, possession for supply of cannabis and selling cannabis. Dunedin Mongrel Mob Aotearoa chapter president James Rata Stevenson and patchmember Teone Jack Thompson subsequently pleaded guilty to a large number of charges. They were jointly charged with selling cannabis (x 44), possessing cannabis for supply (x 6) and supplying cannabis (x 7).
23/04/10	Tribesmen MC	Tribesmen patchmember Kimble Moore was jailed for five years and his partner Shinella Simeon was sentenced to two years, eight months jail for possession of methamphetamine for supply. Tribesmen patchmember Anthony Richards also pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody for sentencing. In April 2008, Richards arranged for Moore to purchase 280 grams of P in Auckland and to courier it back to Hamilton. Simeon drove Moore to Auckland where he bought 250g of P (with a street value of approximately $250,000). On their return trip, police intercepted their car and found the methamphetamine hidden under the front passenger's foot well. Police also found $18,000 cash stashed in Moore's pants.
30/04/10	Black Power v Mongrel Mob	Black Power patchmember Matiu Pahau was found guilty of the murder of Peri Niwa, who was stabbed to death in New Plymouth on 15/11/08. Black Power members Mahana Edmonds, Rangi Rick Brown and Adrian Tony Fenton were convicted of manslaughter. All four were found guilty of the commission of a crime with a firearm. They will be sentenced on 16/08/10. In 2008 Mr Niwa was in New Plymouth working for a scaffolding company owned by a Mongrel Mob member. There had been a number of incidents between the scaffolders and members of the Black Power gang and as a result Black Power members were told to attack Mongrel Mob members on sight. On the night Mr Niwa was killed, he was with a person who was wearing a Mongrel Mob tee shirt at a party in New Plymouth. Someone there contacted Black Power members who arrived armed with knives, a tomahawk or axe and a sawn-off firearm. Fenton, Brown and Pahau chased Mr Niwa and his friends down a long driveway while Edmonds stood by the car. Mr Niwa tripped on a step and was fatally stabbed as he tried to get through a broken window.
09/05/10	Black Power	Police arrested three Black Power members for the stabbing of a man outside a Whanganui bar. Police described the stabbing as a “serious and random attack.”
15/05/10	Killer Beez	Killer Beez gang member Latu Kepu was charged with manslaughter following an attack on prison officer Jason Palmer at the Spring Hill prison on 15/05/10. Mr Palmer was one of three officers unlocking his cell when Kepu punched him once in the head. He fell to the ground where he hit his head, causing fatal injuries.
04/06/10	Black Power	A man walking his dog in New Plymouth was threatened by Black Power member Kory Christopher Lambert who objected to the red colour of the dog’s lead. Lambeth and other gang members spotted the man as they were driving past. They pulled over and Lambeth yelled at the victim then demanded money, cigarettes and cannabis. Lambert pleaded guilty to intimidation and was sentenced to 100 hours community service.
11/06/10	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Juan Marcus Sullivan was sentenced to eight years five months’ jail on a charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm for stabbing a fellow inmate at Hawke's Bay prison on 21/11/09. Sullivan was serving life imprisonment for murder following a 2006 conviction for killing a Black Power gang member outside a Gisborne bar. Mob members Harlem Turi and Newton Watene were sentenced to two years and one months’ jail and 17 months’ jail respectively, cumulative on existing jail terms, for their role in the attack. The victim was attacked for giving evidence against someone associated with the Mongrel Mob. Turi and Watene assaulted him on the day he arrived in prison and while this was taking place, Sullivan ran over and stabbed him a number of times with a sharpened weapon. He received serious injuries with one wound close to his heart and needed urgent surgery to save his life. The victim spent seven days in Intensive Care and has still not fully recovered.
11/06/10	Mongrel Mob v Hells Angels MC	Hastings Mongrel Mob members Karl Nestor Nathan and Bronson Pekapo were sentenced to 10 years jail for the attempted murder of Wanganui Hells Angel Wayne Tweeddale in February 2008. Nathan and Pekapo were texted by another mob member and told to “get” Tweeddale who was riding his Harley on State Highway 2, south of Hastings. They picked up a shotgun from the gang pad and chased Tweedale. Nathan fired two shots, hitting him in the back and causing serious abdominal and back injuries. The driver of the car was sentenced to six years jail for his part in the shooting.
11/06/10	Mongrel Mob	Central Hawkes Bay Mongrel Mob Notorious chapter president Sonny Charlton Kaori Smith was jailed for eight years for causing grievous bodily harm to Mob member Benjamin John Pekepo on 04/10/08. Patchmember Wallace John Wamoana was sentenced to four years jail for being an accessory after the fact. Wamoana took the victim to Smith's house because other Mob members were annoyed at Pekapo for changing chapter allegiances without permission. Pekapo received serious injuries including possible permanent brain damage. After the beating he was taken to Wamoana’s house in Hastings and given paracetamol. He was driven to the Lower Hutt Hospital three days later and left in a wheelchair in the foyer. He spent 10 days in a brain rehabilitation unit before he was able to move.
17/06/10	Head Hunters MC	Police raided 11 properties around Whangarei and arrested fifteen people in an operation targeting the manufacture and sale of methamphetamine. Most of those arrested were associates of the Head Hunters gang. Meth, cannabis, drug utensils, $7000 in cash and $1000 worth of stolen property were found during the raids. Police laid more than 300 charges.
18/06/10	Mongrel Mob	Mongrel Mob member Lance Ratima pleaded guilty to the aggravated robbery of the Miramar Kiwibank on 22/12/09 and was sentenced to three years, four months jail. During the robbery Ratima wore makeup to conceal distinctive Mongrel Mob tattoos on his face and forehead. He told a female teller that he had a gun while keeping one hand in a pocket. He escaped with $3342 cash. Ratima had two previous convictions for aggravated robbery.
26/06/10	Mongrel Mob	A Mongrel Mob member was arrested for possession of cannabis for supply after police found half a kilogram of cannabis in his car when he drove off the Cook Strait ferry.