Attribute to Wellington District Prevention Manager, Inspector Fleur de Bes:

Search teams have today found the body of a man during the search for Philip Sutton in Karori.

Formal identification procedures are yet to be carried out but we believe the body is that of Mr Sutton and have notified his loved ones.

About 11am, Mr Sutton’s Suzuki Swift was found in Karori Stream about a kilometre from where it had been parked before flooding started. Then about 12pm, the Police search team discovered the body of a man on the South Coast near the mouth of the stream.

Police are asking for the public’s help finding Inna, who has been reported missing from Waiheke Island.

Inna, 61, was last seen at around 9am on Friday 17 April boarding a bus to Matiatia.

Police believe Inna may be in the Mt Albert or wider West Auckland areas.

She is described as 164cm with curly brown hair and was wearing a lime green turtleneck jumper and brown checkered pants.

Police and Inna’s family have concerns for her welfare and would like to find her as soon as possible.

A group’s fishing trip ended in the cold and dark, but fortunately a rescue effort meant it wasn’t a tragedy.

Four people had set out to fish off the rocks at Piapia Bay in the Far North on Monday.

Detective Sergeant Paul Overton, Northland Police Search and Rescue lead, says after finishing their outing, the group headed back to the main road via an alternative route in the afternoon.

“Unfortunately, the group have got lost and stranded on a cliff edge near Wainui Bay; the sun had set, and darkness had set in.

Attribute to Wellington District Prevention Manager, Inspector Fleur de Bes:

Extensive planning has been underway today in the search for missing Karori man Philip Sutton.

While Police did visit the scene this morning to assess stream conditions, the physical search activities that were expected to take place today were unable to go ahead due to safety concerns.

The search is now due to recommence on Wednesday, as the stream water levels drop and weather conditions improve.

Police are appealing for information following a distressing incident at a Pōkeno property last week.

Investigations are continuing after 18 pet goats were shot dead on a property on Ridge Road overnight on Monday 13 April.

Counties Manukau South Area Investigations Manager, Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Nelson, says the animals were inhumanly shot in a fenced paddock and the carcasses were all left on site.

“We are appealing to the public for any information in relation to this incident.

A trio of supermarket shoplifters were arrested in Takapuna yesterday, bagging an unrelated thief at the same time.

At around 4.50pm, Waitematā Police received a report of a group stealing from a Barrys Point Road supermarket.

Waitematā East Area Response Manager, Senior Sergeant CJ Miles, says three men entered the supermarket and began a coordinated effort at taking items of interest.

“The alleged offenders were sighted filling their backpacks with alcohol and meat.

Police can now name the woman who died after being struck by a bus in Tennyson Street, Napier on 17 April.

She was Olawande Perpetual Braimoh, aged 36.

Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones.

Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.

ENDS
 

Issued by Police Media Centre. 

Attribute to Acting Detective Sergeant Steve Leonard: 

Police investigating reports of serious sexual offending by a Flaxmere man are continuing to appeal for information.

On Monday 23 March, a 37-year-old Flaxmere man, who has name suppression, was arrested and charged with abduction for sex, impedes breathing/blood circulation, two counts of unlawful sexual connection with female over 16, and four counts male rapes female over 16. He is currently remanded in custody, due to reappear in Napier District Court on 12 June.

Attribute to Acting Detective Sergeant Steve Leonard: 

Police investigating reports of serious sexual offending by a Flaxmere man are continuing to appeal for information.

On Monday 23 March, a 37-year-old Flaxmere man, who has name suppression, was arrested and charged with abduction for sex, impedes breathing/blood circulation, two counts of unlawful sexual connection with female over 16, and four counts male rapes female over 16. He is currently remanded in custody, due to reappear in Napier District Court on 12 June.

A disregard for the road rules has ended in two arrests in Counties Manukau overnight.

The driver of a vehicle travelling with no headlights on and swerving across the road in now headed to court.

Just after 7pm, Police were alerted to a Honda HR-V travelling northbound on State Highway 2 without headlights activated and swerving within the lane.

A Pōkeno Highways unit has attempted to stop the vehicle however, the driver failed to stop and was not pursued.