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Sentencing delayed by positive drug test
Sentencing of a woman who scammed elderly victims – including a 95-year-old – has been delayed so that a judge can find out more about a positive drug test during a home detention term. The positive...
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Role in $8.3m Ponzi scheme admitted
A Christchurch man has admitted his role in an $8.3 million Ponzi scheme that drew in 900 investors. Jimmie Kevin McNicholl, 56, today admitted the fraud charge – obtaining registration as a Financial...
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Jail for property commission frauds
Property consultant Stephen Rolf Gubb has been jailed for two years nine months for commission frauds on deals relating to the Izone development in Rolleston. The Christchurch District Court was told...
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Conman ‘more comfortable in prison’
A conman facing sentencing on five fraud charges, entered last minute guilty pleas to seven further charges that his counsel described as “depressingly similar”. Defence lawyer Nick Rout said the...
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Woman involved children in thieving
A 31-year-old woman who got children involved in her organised shoplifting has been jailed for four years six months. Crown prosecutor Mitchell McClenaghan said authorities and agencies were now left...
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Remands on fraud, drugs charges in racing industry
Four people facing charges of deceptive practice and drug use, arrested in a police investigation relating to the harness racing industry, have been remanded at the Christchurch District Court. Judge...
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Agent gets home detention for $150,000 fraud
Home detention has been granted to a real estate agent who admitted a $149,094 fraud charge related to the Izone development in Rolleston. Shirley Anne Johnston, 66, admitted one representative charge...
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Scammer and thief gets a chance at a future
A judge’s wide knowledge of Christchurch offenders went on show at a district court sentencing in Court 19. For months, Judge Jane Farish has been working to give Leana Korau, also known as Wylie, a...
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Businessman faces $250,000 tax charges
Tax charges totalling nearly $250,000 have now been laid against a Christchurch businessman who was remanded last week on dishonesty charges. The 44-year-old has been granted bail again and remanded...
View ArticleSuppression lifts on businessman facing 67 charges
Name suppression has lifted on a Christchurch businessman, Nigel Terrance William Thompson, facing 67 dishonesty or tax charges. Thompson, 44, of St Albans, has had suppression since first appearing in...
View ArticleFraud charges after stolen mail items found
A 36-year-old Diamond Harbour woman faced 35 charges after police searched a property in a stolen mail investigation on Monday. Anna Leigh Hunter was granted a registrar’s remand at the Christchurch...
View ArticleSuppression lifts on woman sent from Australia
Name suppression has been lifted on a 42-year-old woman extradited from Australia to face charges of fraud and the theft of a yacht after a years-long police investigation. Simone Wright, also known as...
View ArticleWoman says abuse forced her into crime
A woman says she was brutally abused to make her take part in a three-month crime spree. Antonia Deborah Ogilvie, also known as Rae, said she had been punched, kicked, and burned with cigarettes and...
View ArticleMail thefts alleged
Nine more charges have been laid against a 36-year-old woman who was already facing 35 charges relating to a stolen mail investigation. Anna Leigh Hunter was charged in December and remanded without...
View Article‘I don’t want to die in prison,’ scammer pleads
“I don’t want to die, I got so sick in jail last time”, a distressed scammer pleaded as he was jailed for two years nine months. Brendon Karl Dean Harris, 24, was one of a group scammers of the elderly...
View ArticleScammer and shoplifter avoids jail time
A judge struggled with what to do about scammer and shoplifter Reiana Janine Hilton, and decided in the end that supervision, counselling, and a job were the answer. Hilton, a 36-year-old mother, was...
View Article$300,000 offences alleged
Thefts and frauds amounting to almost $300,000 are alleged against a man and a woman who faced a total of 82 charges at the Christchurch District Court. The pair are jointly charged with stealing...
View ArticleCar dealer back in custody
A Christchurch car dealer already on bail on tax and dishonesty charges has ended up in custody after police laid a further charge. Nigel Terrance William Thompson, 45, was refused bail by Christchurch...
View ArticleSouthland dishonesty charges denied
Name suppression has lifted on a Cromwell man who has elected trial by jury on 12 dishonesty charges at an appearance in the Christchurch District Court today. The trial for Andrew W C Tonks Thomson,...
View ArticleLoan scammers got $250,000 from finance company
Fraudsters drained more than $250,000 out of a finance company that allows loan applications online and over the phone. One of those fraudsters, repeat scam offender Brendon Karl Dean Harris, today...
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