Man dies during Twilight: Eclipse in New Zealand

A NEW Zealand man was found dead in his seat at a movie theater after a screening of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Police said they were treating the death as been unexplained, but not suspicious, The New Zealand Herald reported.

The man's body was found at a theatre in the capital Wellington about 8:30pm (local time) last night at the conclusion of the vampire film.

The man, who was described by police as a "transient" who traveled throughout the country, appeared to have attended the 6pm screening alone.

An autopsy will be carried out tomorrow to determine the cause of death.

Police said the man was found slumped forward in his chair at the conclusion of the film and that a staff member initially thought he was asleep.

A member of security checked on the man and the emergency services were called, but they were unable to revive him.

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Magnitude 4.3 quakes shake North Island east coast

Another sensible earthquake struck tonight on the North Island's east coast in the same region as 2 earlier ones.

GNS Science said a quake having the magnitude 4.3 struck off the coast among Gisborne, Tolaga Bay about 11.05pm. It goes after a 4.5 quake which struck in the same region at 1.39pm, & 1 at 10.29am which having the magnitude 4.3.

Latest earthquake having the deep of 33km & GNS Science told that all were likely to have been felt further south in Hawke's Bay.

Car crash killed 3 people include 2 child’s

A car accident state 3 people died & 2 injuries. A man & his 2 yr old daughter from Dannevirke & a 70 yr old woman from Ormondville died after their cars crashed late on Wednesday night.

The accident occurred before 10.00pm on State Highway 2 among Dannevirke & Norsewood. Police said that the people in both cars were direction home, one heading south to Dannevirke, the other north to neighboring Ormondville.

Police say the 2 yr old girl was travelling with her parents, who were admitted to the hospital. The father, 36, died midnight in the hospital. The mother remains in hospital in a serious condition & is in a coma stage. The 73 yr old female passenger from the other car is reported as serious but stable.

Boy, 11, falls from top bunk

An 11-year-old boy was flown to hospital once he falling from the top bunk in a hut in Abel Tasman National Park.

Joshua Bolitho was airlifted from Bark Bay after suffering arm & shoulder injuries early yesterday. The 7yr student had dropped after forgetting he was on a top bunk.

Summit Rescue Helicopter pilot Tim told the boy wake up to go the toilet but forget he was sleeping on an elevated bed. His mother told that her son had a displaced elbow that was maybe fractured, he need full-arm cast.

Police hunt bank robber at Waikato bank

Two women tellers at the BNZ Bank in Putaruru were enforced to hand over an unnamed amount of money to the men. It happened at 4.36pm & late tonight police were look for the outlaws.

Police commend the tellers for keeping their cool & co-operating with the thief. The robbers had enveloped their identities with clothing & glasses. One was armed with a gun.

"The 2 female tellers were deals with & demands made for money, however no violence was happened," Mr Verry said. He also said a stolen white Nissan Primera car, was found by police several building blocks away. Police were carrying out a scene examination & interviewing witnesses.

Man killed in logging truck crash

An 87-year-old man has died in a crash with a logging truck close to on Monday.

The man was pulling out of a driveway on State main road 1 at Reidston, 13km away from Oamaru when the accident occurred about 1pm, Dunedin Senior Sergeant Craig Brown says.

The car spun & landed on its side, trapping the man. He was freed by emergency services & he died on the way to the hospital.Brown says the logging truck was free that time. The man's name will not be released yet.

Driver flees checkpoint after one dead

The young female driver goes faster away from the checkpoint before police could carry out a breath alcohol screening test on her.

Later than the police followed the vehicle, they exposed she had driven into one more car & she has killing one middle-aged female driver. One person is dead after other driver fleeing a police checkpoint in Blenheim, smashed into the car, killing its driver.

The crash scene has been barrier off & they will be inspected by the Serious Crash Unit on Saturday.

Risky getting drugs into Mt Eden Prison

The preface of a single entry has made it tougher to smuggle drugs into the Mt Eden & Auckland Central Remand prisons (ACRP), the Department of Corrections said. All workers, visitors & outworkers will now enter the combined site through a single point. They will be searched by using a metal detector & x-ray machine, department spokeswoman said.

This gets the practices at Mt Eden & ACRP into line with other newer prison places around the country, she said. The single point of way in has been created as part of the Mt Eden & ACRP Redevelopment Project.

In the last economic year positive random drug tests on prisoners nationally gave the lowly result while drug tests began in 1998 at 10.5%. The Department of Directions says this is facts that an improved focus on stopping drugs entering prisons is paying off.

Crash in north Auckland; one dead

The car crash occurred on East Coast Road at Redvale, 29km northwest of downtown Auckland, around 3.10pm. One person is died & 4 were injured in this crash.

One person was badly injured, while other 3 had moderate injuries. Emergency services were at the scene & the road would remain closed while the crash was investigated, police said.

Queenstown’s Low level drug importer jailed

The lure of easy money from the Queenstown drug scene has led to a 4 & a half year jail time for Luke Dale, who brings in ecstasy & got caught in the police's Operation Wing investigation.

The 28-year-old roofer was part of a conspiracy that imported drugs with a street value of among $180,000 & $300,000. His co-offenders, Mathew Charlton Lile, 22, Benjamin Robert Briggs, 29, & Reuben Paul Aberdeen, 26, were also jailed next a sentencing in Invercargill 2 weeks ago.

Dale's defense counsel Tony Greig argued in Christchurch region Court today that his client had a lesser level involvement, describing him as the muscle, & the risk taker. "He was a dispatch rider & a mule. He was the one they were prepared to hang out to dry if he had been caught at an airport."

Emergency no faults in Auckland

Emergency services are familiarity difficulties with the 111 scheme, with some callers unable to reach police. Police told the problem appeared to be confined to the Auckland area, & Telecom was working on the trouble. The 111 system went down at around 3.30am says report.

Telecom spokesman Mark Watts told the problem may be irregular & some 111 callers may be able to get through. He told Telecom was taking the trouble very seriously & trying to fix the problem as soon as possible.

This trouble was not related to the network but affected callers on all networks on landlines & mobiles. The callers have been receiving a range of responses with an engaged signal & no signal at all.

Fire leave vacant near Dunedin

Some residents in the Taieri region northwest of Dunedin have been vacated as firefighters tackle a forest blaze. Helicopters with monsoon buckets are being used to brawl the fire in the Mt Allan forestry block.

It began about 3.30pm, probably ignited by logging equipment, Wenita Forest Products Ltd chief executive Dave Cormack said. Forestry contractors left the area instantly as the fire quickly increase over 30 hectares. Some houses nearby were leaved and the Taieri Gorge train trip was held up.

A rural fire spokesman said firefighters were receiving control of 1 side of the blaze & trying to control the other side which had been admired by westerly winds.

Defence staff surprised nobody hurt in Cooks cyclone

The New Zealand Defence Force told it's amazing there were no injuries through the cyclone that slammed Aitutaki in the Cook Islands last week. Scarcely a home was left intact after Tropical Cyclone Pat hit the island on Feb 11. The Defence Force has been serving islanders to repair their damaged homes & restore services.

Squadron Leader Kavae Tamariki, who flew to the Cooks with a Defence Force aid group in an Air Force Hercules, said being in such an overwhelmed area was "pretty humbling". "I am amazed that nobody got hurt when you see the amount of debris lying around." Aid had arrived at a crucial time & fresh water, food and temporary shelters were providing relief, the Government has given $200,000 to help repair damage, he said.

"The island has been hit pretty hard. There is a lot of task to do to restore essential services before they start the rebuilding process but the work has begun. We hope to make a positive impact while we are here.”

Squadron Leader Tamariki told that 68 homes were entirely destroyed and "pretty much 90 per cent of the houses have several form of damage". "There are a lot of people who are homeless, living in churches r with other family members."

Police say young girl may be with friends

Mislaid Wellington schoolgirl Olivia Rutherford may be with friends who are hiding her, police say. Yesterday police described her state of mind as "fragile and upset". Olivia, 15, did not attend school on Friday – somewhat both her mother and school principal say she has not at all done before.

Police are too looking for a woman who called to excuse Olivia's absence from school on Friday morning. The caller was not her mother, Elizabeth Rutherford. "We'll be inspection it out to see who's really left it and how that message came to be," Senior Sergeant Paul Borrell said.

A police dive squad failed to get back anything from Wellington harbour yesterday. Olivia's bag, with her wallet, was found on the City to Sea Bridge near the harbor by a member of the public on Saturday morning.

"Youngsters can be emotional and we think that she's been weak and upset on Friday. Olivia's friends may be thinking they are doing the correct thing by keeping her with them but we need to know if she's safe." No exacting information had led police to believe Olivia was hiding with friends. "It's just an option and we know from experience and recent cases… teenagers will look after their friends."

Traumatised girl get cared for by family

A 7 year old girl is in the care of family members as the look for continues around Christchurch at present for her mother, Vanessa Pickering. 27 year old Ms Pickering was last seen leaving her house in New Brighton with her daughter on Monday evening.

It is thinking they were with Malcolm Chaston, also known as Maniapoto Walker, or Mana, who police situated in Cheviot the past, bringing his vehicle to a halt with road spikes. He was required on an outstanding warrant over an suspected sexual assault on the day Ms Pickering went missing, even though the incident does not relate to her. Chaston appears in court today on charges police say are until now to be determined.

Detective Senior Sergeant Virginia Le Bas says Ms Pickering's daughter was found the past day and is traumatised. She is currently with family members. 60 police officers will continue their look for Ms Pickering at coastal area of Banks Peninsula.

Man and woman charged with 3 rapes

A man and a woman have been in prison in relation to a sequence of sexual assaults in Hamilton more than the past 6 months. The police said the pair, both in their 30s, has each been charged with 3 counts of rape and 1 of unlawful sexual connection.

The charges are for 3 separate assaults since July last year. The police told the man faces an extra charge of carrying out an indecent act in a public place. They say the arrests followed information from the public that led them to search a rural property among Hamilton and Cambridge belatedly on Friday night.

A 3rd victim had contacted them on Friday morning after seeing media reporting of the other assaults. The police are advice anyone else who has been assaulted to contact them. When the pair entered in Hamilton District Court on Saturday the man was remanded in prison and the woman was approved bail till one more court appearance next week.

Drugs recovered in NZ

Police have recovered drugs supposed to be methamphetamine after a motorcyclist allegedly speed past a police Highway Patrol car. Police said the event occurred approximately noon yesterday after a motorcyclist allegedly conceded a patrol car at over 120km/h along Lethbridge Rd in Fielding.

The patrol car chased the motorcyclist for approximately 1.5km and found the discarded bike on Maewa Road. "A large amount of drugs, supposed to be methamphetamine, along with additional drug-related items were recovered," police said.

A 41-year-old Feilding man was in prison close to where the bike was abandoned. He will come out at Palmerston North District Court today charged on drug-related charges, driving whilst suspended also fault to stop.

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Gunman walks on streets

Armed police blocked roads and warned public to stay inside as a gunman walked Upper Hutt streets. Police said a man spoiled a van, made threats and was seen waving a rifle at a Sanford St home about 4.45pm yesterday. Two eye witnesses at the home fled. The equipped offenders squad, armed police and police dogs were used to look for the gunman.

People around Upper Hutt College and Fergusson Intermediate, in the Fergusson Dr, Moonshine Rd and Merton St area, were told to keep on inside and people trying to get home were asked to wait away. The gunman walked about 250 meters from the home to the grounds, where he surplus the rifle. At 5.30pm, police under arrest a man near the school grounds. An unloaded rifle was found nearby.

During the callout, police got one more report of a man with a rifle at a close to address in Hikurangi St. As a precaution, police treated it as a next incident but believe it was the same man. They cordoned off the street and the AOS were deployed to guarantee the area was safe. Chris Fairbrother was stopped up by the cordons but saw police dogs track a man on the school grounds. “I can notice the dogs chasing someone. They were on his track."

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High-speed hunt after hold-up

A 140kmh police chase of an allegedly armed Temuka bank theft suspect ended in Ashburton when his car strikes another vehicle, injuring a tenant. A 21-year-old enjoyable Point man faces several charges after he supposedly stole an undisclosed sum at gunpoint as of the Temuka limb of the ANZ Bank on 10.30am.

The man then allegedly stole a vehicle and police chased him at speeds of up and about to 140kmh, backing off when the driver stopped up in the Hinds area, got out of the car and allegedly keen a pistol at them. He afterward allegedly attempted to ram a police car north of the township. Police called off the pursuit further north in Tinwald for safety reasons as the car was being driven irregularly, said Senior Sergeant Grant Russell, of Ashburton.

Police said the driver lost control of his car after passage the Ashburton River bridge, striking a stationary car, which was shunted into one more vehicle. Police said the suspect and his passenger fled in opposite directions, but both were caught with help from the public. Inquiries over the passenger's involvement were ongoing, police said.

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Worst killers not covered fewer than three strikes law

A future three strikes rule would have done not anything to prevent some of New Zealand's most notorious killings. The fresh legislation to be introduced by the Sentencing in addition to Parole reorganization Bill will see a criminal convicted of a third qualifying offence jailed for the maximum term, without the possibility of parole. William Bell, who is helping a minimum 30 years for the Mt Wellington triple murders of 2001, dual killer Graeme Burton convicted rapist and killer Liam Reid in adding up to prison-van murderer George Charlie Baker.

The Corrections section has confirmed none of them despite extensive criminal histories including in the case of Burton more than 100 previous convictions had dedicated previous offences that would have plant them in the three strikes category. So the three strikes law would lock up 12 extra criminals each year within the next 5 yrs.

If the new law wouldn't contain touched on the people you're talking about, that shows it is more about the rhetoric, rather than making people safer. The director of penal improvement group Rethinking offense and Punishment said the longer sentences would not deter cruel criminals. The sorts of offenders we are talking about don't believe once let alone twice. Figures free by Corrections Minister Collins said the new rule would add 56 inmates to the jail people following five years, 142 following 10 yrs, 288 following 20 yrs.

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