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NZ police make arrest after incident on Crown Range in March
A man has been arrested following a reported assault on the Crown Range in late March.
Detective Senior Sergeant Malcolm Inglis says a 21-year-old man reported being flagged down by a stranded motorist about 10pm on Friday 26 March.
“He reported that while looking at the person’s vehicle he was seriously assaulted and robbed of his backpack and contents,” he says.
“Yesterday a 20-year-old Cromwell man was arrested and charged with the robbery.”
He is due to appear in Queenstown District Court on Monday 10 May.
“Police enquiries have now established the pair were known to one another and the meeting, which actually occurred in the car park at Coronet Peak, was pre-arranged,” Detective Senior Sergeant Inglis says.
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In late March, police called for help from the public to catch an assailant who turned on a motorist that had stopped to provide assistance. At around 10:30pm a man stopped at the Eastburn Road layby on the Queenstown side of the Crown Range after noticing an unknown man signalling for help using a cellphone torch, police said in a statement on 27 March. After stopping and getting out of his car, the victim was asked to look at an issue with the other man s vehicle. As the victim turned away he was punched several times by the man, who then grabbed the victim s backpack and drove off in an unknown direction.
They were following “reasonably good” leads and would release the photos publicly if necessary. Police were also working through the legalities of the situation, he said. Otago Fish and Game council chief executive Ian Hadland said he could not comment on whether the men were shooting legally without knowing more details.
John Bisset
The women were walking beside the Clutha River in Alexandra when they were hit. (File photo) However, rivers and wetlands throughout Otago were common places for duck hunting activity, especially on opening weekend, he said. “Unfortunately encroachment of dwellings, tracks and cycle trails alongside these same areas does have the potential to put higher densities of people into closer proximity to traditional hunting areas.”
Queenstown found to be New Zealand s capital for illegal party drug MDMA
16 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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New Zealand Police have arrested three people on drug-related charges following search warrants executed in Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Queenstown. Photo / NZ Police
New Zealand Police have arrested three people on drug-related charges following search warrants executed in Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Queenstown. Photo / NZ Police
Otago Daily Times
Police warn of deaths and hospital admissions from dodgy pills as Queenstown is found to be New Zealand s capital for the illegal party drug MDMA.
Officers have been targeting MDMA dealers this year after wastewater testing revealed the Southern police district including Otago and Southland was the worst in the country for the drug.