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rmed Offender’s Squads were used as a precautionary measure to gain entry into property in Botany as part of a massive national police operation targeting an alleged meth ring. Properties in East Tamaki and Botany were among numerous suburbs and towns raided last Thursday. A total of 18 people were arrested as part of a large-scale police operation against an alleged meth ring, police said. More than 30 search warrants were executed across greater Auckland, Northland, the Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas, as part of a major police operation against the manufacture and supply of methamphetamine or P.
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Just after 6am, 160 police officers launched search warrants at residential and business addresses in the following areas; Auckland: Warkworth, Stanmore Bay, Glenfield, Parnell, St Heliers, Glen Innes, Hillsborough, Mt Eden, Mt Albert, Mt Wellington, Grey Lynn, Otahuhu, Mercer, Botany, East Tamaki, Manukau. Northland: Morewa, Kaikohe. Waikato: Pukeatua, Fairfield, Chartwell, Whatawhata. Bay of Plenty: Oropi, Taupo. Christchurch: Northwood, Clearwater. Armed Offender’s Squads were used in Hobson St (central Auckland), Botany, Whatawhata and Oropi. Two men were arrested by
Armed Offenders members in a car in Auckland’s K Road. Thursday’s termination was part of a long-running investigation into an organised criminal group alleged to be responsible for a methamphetamine manufacture and supply ring. Five of the people alleged to be involved are members or associates of the Head Hunters gang. One of the search warrants was carried out at a tyre shop in Otahuhu where casino chips, cash and several high-end cars were found and seized. The search at the shop saw the rims of the hundreds of tyres in the shop removed. Hidden in one tyre was a bag of cash (estimated to contain tens of thousands of
dollars) and a kilo of ephedrine (used to make meth) and worth around $120,000. In a second tyre was another 2kg of ephedrine, worth around $240 000. “This is a huge find and goes to show the efforts that people go to when it comes to meth and the chemicals used to make it,” Detective Senior Sergeant Lloyd Schmid, Organised Crime said. “These drugs and money have been well-concealed and were hidden at the bottom of a pile of dozens of other tyres.” On Thursday afternoon 11 men and 4 women appeared in the Auckland District Court.
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RSA calling for Poppy Day volunteers By MARIANNE KELLY The run-up to the annual Anzac Poppy Day is in full swing at Howick RSA and, as is the case every year, more volunteers will be welcomed to help spread the load. Jan Lawrence and the Poppy Day committee have been planning for April 15 since before Christmas. The campaign got underway last Monday (April 4) when boxes of poppies were delivered
to 36 schools throughout the Howick Ward. Some of the schools, Mrs Lawrence says, are planning special Anzac services at their final assemblies of the term which coincide with Poppy Day. For the 12th year Macleans College students will take poppy and collection boxes around businesses throughout the East Tamaki industrial area. And on Monday boxes of 100 poppies along with collection boxes will be dropped off
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to the volunteers,” Mrs Lawrence says. “We never have enough but it spreads the load. People can always bring a partner or a friend to share the shift.” Meanwhile the RSA is reaching out to younger generations in its campaign to support New Zealand’s younger cohort of veterans with the official launch of its Text Poppy service which started on April 1.
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