Whanganui Police have arrested two people following an extensive investigation into a series of dishonesty and wilful damage offences targeting local dairies and businesses across the district. 

The arrests were made yesterday after staff from the Whanganui Retail Crime Unit, Tactical Crime Unit, and Field Intelligence officers executed a search warrant as part of an ongoing investigation into multiple shoplifting, theft, and wilful damage incidents. 

Police can now name the woman who died following a crash in Invercargill on 18 September.

She was 52-year-old Jacqueline Mary Jones, from North Taieri.

Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones at this difficult time.

Police’s enquiries into the circumstances of the crash remain ongoing.

ENDS

Issued by Police Media Centre