Statement to be attributed to Wairoa Area Response Manager, Senior Sergeant Maui Aben:
A search warrant executed at a Black Power-linked residential address near Wairoa on Friday resulted in the location and seizure of firearms and ammunition.
The search warrant, at a Lake Road, Frasertown property, was conducted under the umbrella of Operation Atlas – a multi-faceted police response focusing on the disruption and prevention of organised crime and gang-related offending across the Eastern Police district, with a current focus on Wairoa.
Police located the following firearms and ammunition concealed at the rural property:
· 1x Heckler & Koch .22 rifle
· 1x Marlin .22 rifle
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Wairoa deserves better : Town over it as police arm up after gang shootings
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The picturesque Wairoa on an awesome day, without the shootings. Photo / File
Hawkes Bay Today
Shootings in Wairoa have prompted an urgent telephone conference between police, community and agency leaders in Wairoa in a bid to find answers to decades-long, often-armed gang-based conflict in the area.
But, revealing the meeting took place late yesterday, Gisborne-based police Tairawhiti (Gisborne, East Coast and Wairoa) area manager Inspector Sam Aberahama said there are incidents and details police are not being told about.
He said it s all about red and blue – sometimes within a family and sometimes intra gangs rather than between gangs.
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