NZ Police
The Raglan police are looking to find the rightful owners of a collection of rings, similar to these, which were recovered during a search warrant.
A teenager allegedly involved in a spate of burglaries in Raglan over the Christmas period has been arrested. However, the police say further arrests could be coming, and they also need to find the rightful owners of property recovered during search warrants – including a collection of colourful rings. A 19-year-old male is due to soon appear in the Hamilton District Court. He will be facing six charges laid in relation to a string of night-time commercial and residential burglaries in the town, between December 15 and 31 last year.
Hamilton District Court. Photo credit: File
A border worker showing COVID-19 symptoms who put Hamilton District Court into lockdown for a brief time on Wednesday has reportedly tested negative.
The Ministry of Health said the woman was awaiting the results of a routine test for the virus, but showed up to court anyway.
The court was locked down from 10am until about 11:30am as a precaution. The Ministry of Justice is following Ministry of Health guidelines to protect the health and safety of all court participants and staff, said Maeve Neilson, acting deputy secretary corporate and digital services. We have also developed a protocol to deal with anyone displaying symptoms of or confirmed cases of COVID-19 in any of our buildings.
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Police rushed to the Westpac bank at the Chartwell shopping centre in Hamilton after Mohammed Mausheem used a replica firearm to rob a teller of almost $2000.
Lockdown wasn’t kind to Mohammed Mausheem. He lost his job, became addicted to methamphetamine and, in a desperate bid to pay off his drug debts, he robbed two Hamilton banks and a dairy in a single day. Mausheem, 27, wept silently in the dock on Tuesday as he was jailed for four years and two months at his sentencing in the Hamilton District Court. The events that led up to a day of “very stupid choices” on September 30 – namely the armed robberies of the Westpac bank at the Chartwell shopping centre, the Kiwibank bank at Rototuna, and a dairy at Taupiri – were laid bare in court by Mausheem’s counsel Gerard Walsh.