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CTV News
3 hours ago
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Two youths charged in N.B. ATV crash that killed 15-year-old boy
New Brunswick RCMP has charged two 16-year-olds with dangerous driving causing death after a 15-year-old boy was killed in an ATV collision last year. RCMP responded to the two-vehicle collision around 10:20 p.m. on May 3, 2024, in Beresford, N.B. According to a news release from the RCMP, one driver lost control of an ATV and collided with another ATV. The driver of the first ATV was treated for minor injuries, while the passenger, a 15-year-old boy from the Bathurst area, died at the scene. The driver of the second ATV was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the first ATV was arrested and later released. Both ATV drivers were charged with dangerous driving causing death on June 2. They will appear in Bathurst youth court on June 26 at 9:30 a.m. Update, June 10, 2025: On June 2, 2025, two 16-year-old youth were charged with dangerous driving causing death in connection with this incident. The youth are scheduled to appear in Bathurst Youth Court on June 26 at 9:30 a.m. Original news release: — RCMP New Brunswick (@RCMPNB) June 10, 2025 For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
RNZ News
29-05-2025
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Teen charged with shoplifting more than $1000
Police recovered about $800 worth of groceries which were returned to the Manukau supermarket. Photo: NZ Police Police say a thief bagged nearly $1000 worth of groceries before they tracked him down in Auckland last week. There were multiple reports of a man shoplifting from a Manukau supermarket last Saturday morning and police said he took a lot of meat products before fleeing in a vehicle. In a statement, Inspector Warrick Adkin said they found the vehicle a short distance away and about $800 worth of groceries which were inside were returned to the supermarket. He said officers discovered the same person had been involved in shoplifting at a Three Kings supermarket an hour earlier. "Further enquiries revealed this male has allegedly been involved in numerous shoplifting or theft incidents this year, totalling several thousand dollars." A 17-year-old appeared in Manukau Youth Court on 24 May facing multiple shoplifting-related charges. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
29-05-2025
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Teen charged with shoplifting more than $10,000
Police recovered about $800 worth of groceries which were returned to the Manukau supermarket. Photo: NZ Police Police say a thief bagged nearly $1000 worth of groceries before they tracked him down in Auckland last week. There were multiple reports of a man shoplifting from a Manukau supermarket last Saturday morning and police said he took a lot of meat products before fleeing in a vehicle. In a statement, Inspector Warrick Adkin said they found the vehicle a short distance away and about $800 worth of groceries which were inside were returned to the supermarket. He said officers discovered the same person had been involved in shoplifting at a Three Kings supermarket an hour earlier. "Further enquiries revealed this male has allegedly been involved in numerous shoplifting or theft incidents this year, totalling several thousand dollars." A 17-year-old appeared in Manukau Youth Court on 24 May facing multiple shoplifting-related charges. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
23-05-2025
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Trio of teens to appear in youth court after young woman seriously assaulted
A trio of teenage girls are before the youth court in Auckland. File photo Photo: RNZ Insight A trio of teenage girls are before the youth court in Auckland after a young woman was seriously assaulted on Thursday night. Police were called to a carpark off Station Road in the suburb of Papatoetoe after being contacted by a nearby business at about 9.45pm. The victim was assaulted a number of times, but did not need hospitalisation. She will seek a medical assessment, police said. Detective senior sergeant Michele Gillespie of Counties Manukau CIB said police were able to find those they believe were responsible this morning, and they were known to the victim. "Three females aged between 15 and 18 will appear in the Manukau Youth Court today charged with injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm," she said.
RNZ News
18-05-2025
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Popular $700 ‘Geedup' hoodie at centre of Youth Court trial in Tauranga
By Hannah Bartlett, Open Justice reporter of Geedup hoodies range in price, but typically cost hundreds of dollars. Photo: Open Justice/NZME This story is about a Youth Court hearing that is subject to statutory suppressions. Names have been changed to protect identities. A teenage girl claims she was "kicked in the head" by another teen, after she refused to hand over a $700 Geedup hoodie she'd been given for Christmas. The other teen claims they agreed to swap clothing, and the girl only complained after being questioned by her grandmother about why she went out in an expensive hoodie and came home in a $40 puffer jacket. The case ended up in the Youth Court in Tauranga, where it was up to a judge to decide who was telling the truth - Jessie, the girl who owned the hoodie, or Kiri, who was charged with robbery after allegedly using violence to gain the hoodie. Jessie told a judge they were smoking cannabis at a house, when Kiri starting asking if she could have her Geedup hoodie. "That was my pride and joy. I wasn't willing to give up my jersey." She said Kiri continued asking, and was getting "angrier and angrier". "I could tell that she wasn't asking, she was starting to demand my jersey," Jessie said. She said she was sitting on the floor and Kiri was sat on the end of the bed, before the alleged assault. Jessie said she could tell "something bad was about to happen" and then Kiri "lent back and kicked me in the head". She'd been "booted" in the middle of the forehead with Kiri's left foot and had "seen stars". She told the court she hadn't wanted to be assaulted further, so she took off her hoodie and gave it to Kiri. The girl then left the house with a puffer jacket that Kiri had "thrown" at her, after she'd received the Geedup. Jessie said she met up with Kiri, whom she'd become acquainted with online through a mutual friend, after they'd messaged over social media about having a cannabis-smoking "session". They both agreed that Jessie brought a bong, but Jessie said she hadn't provided any "weed", because she'd been looking for someone to "shout" her a session. Kiri said they both had "tinnies" and, after meeting near Mount Maunganui's Bayfair Mall, the pair had gone to her cousin's house nearby. The two girls and Kiri's cousin had been smoking, when things allegedly came to a head. Jessie said Kiri began to repeatedly ask her for her $700 "Handstyle Geedup" hoodie, which she'd received as a present from her mother. After the alleged assault, Jessie said she headed back to Bayfair to catch a bus home and had been messaging her mum as she walked. She read out messages produced as evidence. The first one she sent about the alleged interaction with Kiri said: "She literally kicked me in the head." Her mother said: "That's why Nan said not to go out with her." Jessie replied: "I should have listened, but I never get to go out and then, when I do, this happens." Her mother replied that it was "$700 down the drain". Jessie said, when she got home, she went straight to her room to lie down and later started "uncontrollably vomiting". She told family members she lived with what had happened and was monitored at home by her grandmother, who is a nurse. Her uncle had taken "a mate" around to Kiri's house to get the sweatshirt back. Jessie was taken to the doctor a "couple of days later", where she reported symptoms of a minor concussion, but no visible injuries were noted. The defence put to Jessie there had been no assault and that there had simply been a clothing swap between the girls that she later regretted. "Isn't it the case that you actually agreed to swap the hoodie with the puffer jacket until the next day, when you were going to swap back?" Kiri's lawyer Mary-Ann McCarty said, during cross-examination. "That is not what happened, because I would not swap my $700 hoodie for something that looked like a $40 puffer jacket," Jessie replied. McCarty asked if, when she went home with the "$40 puffer jacket on", her grandmother had asked where the hoodie was. "She was furious, because she knew that you had swapped a $700 hoodie for a $40 puffer jacket." "Actually, she was furious at the fact I had been kicked in the head and my hoodie had been taken," Jessie said. McCarty said, when faced with the anger of her grandmother at swapping clothes, Jessie had made up that story. Jessie denied this, but didn't have an explanation for why she'd taken the puffer jacket or been offered it, if the hoodie had been taken by force. She told McCarty she hadn't been affected by the cannabis and was still "pretty straight" at the time of the assault. Kiri told the court she hadn't assaulted Jessie and that she'd been surprised when Jessie's uncle had turned up to collect the sweatshirt that night, as the plan had been to swap back at Bayfair the next day. She said if she had kicked her, she would have "owned up to it". Judge Louis Bidois pointed to text messages between Jessie and her mother, and said that "they don't tell the whole story". "The exchange does not include the fact that the jersey had been taken, albeit there is the comment '$700 down the drain'. There's obviously further context, other messages, so effectively they are selective." There was no evidence from "a cousin" who was present throughout the incident nor from Jessie's uncle, who had recovered the hoodie and returned the puffer jacket. The question for the judge was who he believed. While Jessie was "far more articulate" than Kiri, that didn't mean she was more truthful, the judge said. Judge Bidois said he found that Jessie was "probably telling the truth", but he couldn't discount Kiri's denial. He found the charge was not proven and dismissed it. * This story originally appeared in the New Zealand Herald .
