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The cannabis seized was estimated to be worth $8 million and capable of producing three crops a year. Police estimate the cannabis seized was worth $8 million, and three crops could have been grown each year, making the operation $24 million a year, according to court documents released to
Stuff. The men – Aucklanders Minh Nhat Nguyen, 24 and Nhat Quan Nguyen, 20, and 44-year-old Chu Trong Thanh and 45-year-old Dang Gia Cu, addresses unknown – each pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis and possessing cannabis for supply. They faced a maximum of eight years in jail.
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Judge Greg Davis says prison will be more difficult for the Vietnamese men, as they have no support systems other than each other. (File photo)
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Police are looking for sightings of a silver Toyota Altezza, registration MQE620. “We are asking her to please contact police either by visiting her nearest station or contacting 105 and quoting file number 210108/7855. “She was not involved in the incident but it is important that police speak with her,” McCarthy said. Anyone who may have taken photographs or filmed the incident in Kawakawa is asked by police to upload it here. Police are also seeking sightings of a silver Toyota Altezza, registration MQE620, in the Bay of Islands area late on Thursday night and into Friday. Police said they would be supporting Willem’s family during the “extremely difficult time”.