Craig Kapitan

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Craig Kapitan

A pair of company directors accused of having attempted to smuggle almost half a million illicit cigarettes into New Zealand were arrested at Auckland International Airport yesterday before they could board a flight overseas. The man and woman, aged 32 and 34, will instead travel to Manukau District Court this morning to face three charges each.

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Craig Kapitan

When his new tourism business went under because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, Auckland resident Syed Ibrahim sold the company’s recently purchased $90,000 bus and decided to pivot to coconut importation. At least that was his cover story. In reality, the 58-year-old businessman was dumping thousands of kilograms of unused coconut at a West Auckland landfill while keeping an “unprecedented” quantity of illegal methamphetamine ingredient pseudoephedrine.

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jared Savage |Craig Kapitan

A 501 deportee who used meth as a painkiller for serious burns suffered in a bungled arson has been sentenced for his part in a record-breaking drug bust in Auckland. Bradley Te Mai Koha Wijohn was arrested in March 2022 after a covert police investigation discovered a 613kg shipment of methamphetamine smuggled from Malaysia, estimated to be worth $100 million. The Operation Weirton bust was the largest seizure of meth at the time.

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Craig Kapitan

In 2005, young Australian banker Sean Clifford made headlines at home and overseas for a bizarre mistake in judgment in which he reportedly found A$263,000 cash in an alleyway and stowed it under his work desk rather than informing police. When the stash was found by a co-worker, the optics were bad and his job at Macquarie Bank didn’t last much longer. He ended up with a larceny conviction and his photo in the Sydney Morning-Herald.

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Craig Kapitan

A mother has been sentenced in the Auckland District Court for the abuse and neglect of an infant boy and his toddler sister. WARNING: Contains graphic content. For about a year, neighbours could hear the constant crying of children from inside a Onehunga home. Ominous signs of abuse were also picked up by the South Auckland daycare where the infant boy and his toddler sister, who lived at the property, spent most days.