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A Havelock North widow is appealing for the safe return of a pendant stolen from her home during a spate of recent burglaries targeting jewellery.

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Jewellery targeted in burglaries

A man who smashed a police patrol car windscreen with a dive cylinder on Sunday appeared at Napier District Court yesterday and asked if he could have his cylinder back.

News

Judge unwilling to play man's games

Two of eight people arrested following last week's cannabis bust appeared in court yesterday to face charges of cultivation and possession.

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Pair first in court after major drug bust

Former Hawke's Bay Police Inspector Kevin Kalff was quick to swing the attention away from himself when it came to acknowledging he had been awarded a Queen's Service Medal (QSM).

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Humble hero accepts tribute for helpers

A Napier motorist took road rage to the next level yesterday when he was stopped for a routine police vehicle check.

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Upset man tosses dive bottle

Sixteen people have been arrested in a drug operation which involved 35 officers and netted 170 cannabis plants, 3.5kg of dried cannabis and $3000.

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Burglaries linked to drugs

It is always good to lead the newspaper with a successful operation by police, and you don't get more successful than the one carried out this week.

Opinion

Editorial: Drug raids good for community

Three people busted by police as part of two major drug operations in Hawke's Bay last year were sent to prison on Tuesday when they appeared for sentencing in Napier District Court.

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Jail time for meth suppliers

A Hastings man is devastated a statue made using the ashes of his stillborn granddaughter has been stolen from his front porch.

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Hastings man pleads for ashes to be returned

Runaway prisoner David Lothien was sentenced yesterday to two years and five months' imprisonment for escaping from a prison van and assault, as his violent past and history of escaping police was detailed in court.

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Runaway prisoner labelled an 'antisocial thug'

Hawke's Bay's worst recidivist criminal has more than 420 convictions - mostly relating to fraud and deception offences, Justice Ministry figures show.

News

Bay's worst crim revealed

Eighteen Hawke's Bay benefit fraudsters have been prosecuted in the past six months over wrongful payments amounting to nearly half a million dollars.

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Bay benefit fraudsters steal $500k in 6 months

A Napier man who was jailed for three years after conning his way into free accommodation by pretending to be an evacuee of the Napier siege and then ripping off the motel appeared in court again yesterday on new burglary charges.

News

More jail time for repeat offender

A 17-year-old youth who sparked a police search through orchard land on the outskirts of Hastings city is to appear in court today charged with threatening to kill and on another charge for assaulting a woman.

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Teen to appear in court following police search

Witnesses to the death of a Whakatu woman, who died as a result of burns on Christmas Day, have closed ranks and will not tell police what happened.

News

Death witnesses snub police

Swansea retirement village residents are "absolutely angry" thefts are continuing, despite having received community support.

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Thieves strike elderly again

Another brazen attack on staff cars at Hawke's Bay Hospital this week has been labelled "mindless vandalism".

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Hospital cars hit by 'mindless vandals'

The Hastings RSA is reeling after $50,000 worth of equipment used to help war veterans and the elderly was stolen.

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Hastings RSA burgled

I declare I have been well and truly stung.

Opinion

Editorial: The price of an orange

After the destruction and terror of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake an eagle, in what was once shining brass but blackened by flames, rose like a phoenix from the rubble and ashes of the shattered Cathedral of St John Cathedral in Napier.

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Church hopeful missing feet return

The man accused of the carjacking and stabbing on April 29 that left a woman in her 60s requiring hospital treatment was denied bail yesterday at the Napier District Court.

News

Stabbing and carjacking accused denied bail

A Samoan national accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in a Flaxmere park has been banned from returning to Hawke's Bay unless he is due to appear in court.

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Judge tells accused to leave Bay

An abandoned car found in a forest near Taupo this month is not connected with the disappearance of hitchhiker Mona Blades almost 38 years ago, police say.

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No Blades link to car in forest

Police have hit back at claims they have not responded to crime around Flaxmere's Swansea retirement village and are calling on the community to help them catch the criminals.

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We need a hand: Police rebuke elderly's claims

A Canadian security industry worker who was kicked numerous times in the head while trying to stop an early-morning assault in Napier is surprised almost no one else tried to stop the thuggery he says could have ended in death.

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No one wanted to stop it, says assault victim

A barman was robbed at gunpoint and assaulted while four patrons were attacked outside another pub in two violent episodes at the weekend.

News

Violence at Bay bars

A group of elderly Flaxmere residents have had enough of the "thugs" that rule the streets around their retirement village and neighbourhood, after four cars were broken into last Friday night.

News

Elderly group living in fear of crime spree

A Hastings entertainer has been found guilty of sexual violation for an incident involving a 17-year-old boy six years ago.

News

Entertainer violated boy

They came they saw, they stomped grapes with their feet.

News

Radio pair comb Hawke's Bay for the weird and wonderful

If it looks or sounds too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true.

Opinion

Boom goes the scam business

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