Tag: Mongrel Mob
Gang associate arrested after fleeing police
Police say they arrested a man after fleeing police officers and driving dangerously across Auckland’s motorway network on Wednesday night.
It followed an earlier incident...
Luxon details dire state of education system, and his plan to...
Christopher Luxon says the outcomes being delivered by New Zealand’s education system are dire but his Government has a plan to turn it around.
The...
Labour refuses to stop funding gang-led welfare programmes
By Simeon Brown, MP for Pakuranga
Over the weekend it was revealed that, earlier this year, Labour declined to endorse a Cabinet paper that...
Crime under the spotlight as election looms
Concerns over New Zealand's growing lawlessness drew several hundred people to a public meeting to hear what the National Party would do to reduce...
Government votes down gang-funding ban bill
The Government has voted down a bill sponsored by Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown that would have banned taxpayers' money being given to gangs.
Brown's Public...
MP wants ban on public money going to gangs
A proposed law change sponsored by an east Auckland politician would prohibit the Government and its agencies from providing funding to organisations run or...
Money for the Mongrel Mob a sick joke
The news last week that the Government had put up nearly $3 million in funding towards a Mongrel Mob-led drug programme came as a...
MP’s bill will stop Government from ‘funding organised crime’
Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown says he will introduce a member’s bill to prevent future Government funding from being granted to organised crime units.
Brown, the...
Simeon Brown calls out donation to gang
Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown is criticising Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt for paying a $200 donation to a gang.
Brown, the National Party’s police...
Another death threat to MP
A man has been arrested in relation to recent threats to Member of Parliament Simeon Brown.
Police received a complaint on Tuesday night (May 25)...
MP receives death threats
A man has been arrested and charged after allegedly making death threats to Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown.
Police say the 25-year-old man was arrested without...