Articles by Craig Kapitan
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Crime
Crown says teens, 14 and 17, 'co-ordinated' fatal stab attack following road rage crash
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 12:31PM“That’s what happens when you come to Beach Haven.” Those are the words witnesses heard as two youths, then aged 14 and...
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Crime
International rugby player who harmed endangered birds loses appeal
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 10:07AMAn Auckland-based international rugby player and social media content creator who could have faced up to two years’ imprisonment...
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Crime
'Singled out': Transgender paedophile says prison punished her for inmate relationships
Monday, 13 May 2024, 7:15AMA violent, serial paedophile who is serving a rare indefinite prison sentence says a nearly half-year stretch in “solitary...
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Crime
$250k jewellery store heist: Getaway driver caught with gems stuffed in bra
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 4:57PMA getaway driver found with jewellery stuffed in her bra, price tags still attached, in the immediate aftermath of a violent...
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Crime
Māori weaponry instructor beat students with stick, says heritage exempted him from law
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 12:51PMA South Auckland primary school volunteer who admitted to whacking eight students with a stick during an overly zealous lesson...
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National
Liz Gunn trial: Airport security worker describes alleged assault
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 10:34AMAn Auckland airport security worker says she felt intimidated and was questioned about her nationality by anti-vaccination...
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Crime
Auckland man revealed to young girl he wasn't her real father, then he slit her throat
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 12:10PMWARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT A jealous South Auckland husband has admitted using a fish-filleting knife to cut the throat...
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Crime
Hefty sentence for father who beat baby to death, but identity still kept secret
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 1:20PMAn Auckland man who beat his baby daughter to death - later admitting to police he turned his aggression on the 8-month-old because...
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Crime
Suitcase murder case: Mum's murder trial comes to halt at last minute, indefinitely delayed
Monday, 29 April 2024, 12:05PMA former Auckland resident who was extradited from South Korea in 2022 to face charges for the alleged killings of her primary...
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Crime
Father joined gang to protect son from 'bullies' - now they're locked up together
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 1:25PMA man who said he joined the Rebels motorcycle gang at age 42 to protect his teen sons from bullying in their “troubled”...
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Crime
501 murder-for-hire convict at-large in NZ after wild police chase in $249k Porsche
Friday, 26 April 2024, 5:24PMAn Auckland man deported from Australia as a 501 after serving prison time as a teenager for a murder-for-hire plot involving...
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Crime
Father recruited 17yo son for armed jewellery heist, claims opiate prescription to blame
Friday, 26 April 2024, 10:42AMFor 10 years, Julian Gerrard Brown had managed to keep his demons in check. But when a workplace injury resulted in a doctor’s...
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Crime
Patuawa Nathan acquitted of murder and manslaughter after stabbing brother Challas Nathan to death in their Auckland home
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 4:27PMA young South Auckland man whose boozy 19th birthday celebration at home with family came to an abrupt end when he stabbed...
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Crime
Identity revealed of defendant accused of killing security guard at Auckland reserve
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 3:12PMOne of two men accused of murdering security guard Ramandeep Singh in West Auckland last year has lost name suppression. Lorenzo...
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Crime
Brother recounts anger, shame after killing sibling at birthday party
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 8:58PMLess than two hours after his 19th birthday celebration ended abruptly with the stabbing of his older brother, Patuawa Nathan...
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Crime
Tribesmen sergeant-at-arms pleads guilty to shooting his own gang's president
Monday, 15 April 2024, 12:27PMA senior patched Tribesmen member has pleaded guilty to the non-fatal shooting his own gang’s boss, just minutes before his...
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Crime
'Astounding quantities': Young entrepreneur was secret drug syndicate figurehead
Sunday, 14 April 2024, 2:46PMBy the time he was 25, Auckland resident Louis Hall had developed a knack for business that some might say was beyond his...
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Crime
More jail time for Killer Bee who fled prison van in motorway escape
Saturday, 13 April 2024, 12:25PMKiller Beez gang member Zane KJ Hepi was on electronically monitored bail and living at the Grace Foundation drug treatment...
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Crime
Revealed: Suppression lapses for one of five defendants in Head Hunters-related murder case
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 2:14PMOne of the five men charged with murder after Samuel Curle was left critically injured on a highway near the northern edge...
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Crime
Head Hunters member pleads guilty to ambush killing of Mongrel Mob boss
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 9:50AMSlain Mongrel Mob leader Daniel Eliu was shot six times at point-blank range - including four in the back - by a patched...
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Crime
'It's my birthday': Brother told police he'd had enough with sibling prior to fatal stabbing
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 4:20PM“F***, I gotten hidings from that c*** many a times. That’s why I said, ‘I’m sick of it. It’s my birthday. I’m not getting...
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Crime
Drug addict used devastating 2023 storms to loot, wreck new homes
Saturday, 6 April 2024, 3:50PMWhile much of Auckland was hunkering down last year in anticipation of Cyclone Gabrielle, Dylan James Hendriks - a drug addict...
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Crime
Swindler dupes woman in her 90s into thinking she'd won $350,000 lottery on Facebook
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 8:53PMAn Auckland man who helped swindle two businesses out of tens of thousands of dollars with decoy invoices - as well as an...
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Crime
Retrial rejected: Man who beat girl, 2, to death claimed miscarriage of justice; appellate panel disagrees
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 3:58PMA man who murdered his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter - beating Arapera Fia so savagely inside the South Auckland home...