Horotiu Road Snaffler Caught!!!!!

A helper from Te Kowhai Community Group

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that a young lady who had just shifted into a house in Horotiu Rd. Te Kowhai was burgled the same night she shifted in. Offenders rifled through her car first and then entered the house where she was asleep.They stole her wedding ring set, $200.00 cash, laptop computer, cellphone,clothing, wallet. Offender later used her eftpos card to steal more money using the pay- wave facility.
The good news is that Police were able to track one offender down in Whakatane and arrest him for receiving the eftpos card. He would not admit to anything else. A receiving charge actually carries a better penalty than a theft or burglary charge anyway so guess that is something. We understand there is a Huntly connection to this burglary as well.

Stolen Survey Equipment
Within a very short time of emailing our last news letter, where we mentioned a Surveyor's GPS base set and tripod being stolen from Long Swamp on the Waikato Expressway at 1.30pm on a Thursday, we were contacted by a lady who advised that her husband's identical survey gear was stolen in a similar fashion when surveying in the Peacock Road area of Hamilton only a few weeks before. (gee thats a long sentence)
We then contacted the Intel Section at Hamilton Police to advise of the 2 separate offenses so they could marry them up and check if there was a possible pattern forming. We understand from the surveyors they have since found that more tripods and GPS equipment has
been stolen from other parts of the country of late.

Puahue
Yet another galvanised tandem axle car transport trailer, registration K765R stolen from an address on Puahue Road on Thursday 24 October. Unfortunately the hedge around this property had recently been cut down in order to erect a wooden fence and so the trailer was visible from the road. It was stolen sometime between 7am and 3.45pm. CCTV footage from the school suggest that the offenders drove off in direction of Chamberlain Road. There was a hand winch and spare wheel and a rusty bar at the front of the trailer. The former two items covered with a red canvas cover. Offenders had cut the locks on the trailer.

Earle Road Pukeatua
Friday 25 October between 10am and 3pm a Honda Duster 150cc farm bike stolen from the front yard of a Farm Manager's home situated between the intersection with Arapuni Road and number 80 Earle Road. Neighbours did see an unfamiliar vehicle driving into various driveways that day but we have no description of that vehicle. It would have been difficult to have seen where the bike was parked looking from the road.

Cambridge, Roto-o-rangi Rd - Lamb Road
We are told Sunday 27 October another offender or offenders with the I.Q. of an earwig decided to start up a digger at a new subdivision being developed. They tried digging a few holes then not content with that drove the digger across Lamb Road and tried using the arm of the digger to demolish the roof of a barn and then not content with that decided to set fire to the digger.

For our regular readers you will recall that a few months ago we mentioned that heavy machinery was being interfered with in the Cambridge area. We are also told that it appears to be a regular occurrence for trucks and diggers to be stolen from the contractors working on the Waikato Expressway. Very handy for the gangs and illegal drug manufacturers to use to bury containers and other proceeds of crime.

Te Rahu Rd Te Awamutu
We have numerous households in Te Rahu Rd listed in our database but we do not hear from anyone, yet the police tell us, using their own terminology, " We are absolutely being spanked with burglaries on this road at the moment." That includes both urban and rural areas of Te Rahu Rd.

Matamata
We are told of burglaries occurring in the College - Kowhai road area over the past few weeks with one lady being hit more than once.

Power Meters
Police in Cambridge are advising that someone has been going around turning off people's power meters at anytime of day or night, so if you can secure your mains power box some how,it would be a good idea. Police have some leads they are following.

Police advise they are still looking for Tawhai Peeke who was involved in a firearms incident at Paeroa on Tuesday 22 October. He is described as being 38 yrs medium build and 187cm tall. He has connections to the wider Hamilton area.

To be made aware is to be made alert. We rely on you folk out there to keep us and then the wider community informed. The police can only tell us of so much and they are only a thin blue line. It is up to us as communities to help as much as we can. Our emails are read by police in various locations and sometimes the information has been of quite some use to them.
Thank you people
Darryl Nix
Trustee Commsafe


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