Dozens face raid charges
The Nelson Mail
Courtroom 1.01 was full yesterday as dozens of people charged in connection with a raid on a Nelson gang house in August filed in to give their plea.
Thirty-six people were charged in the Nelson District Court with allowing an unlicensed premises to be used for the sale of liquor and being found on unlicensed premises being used for the sale of liquor.
Police raided the Red Devils' headquarters in Natalie St, central Nelson, after a cage fighting event where gang members had attended.
The Red Devils are a junior franchise of the Hells Angels gang.
Armed police from Nelson and Christchurch charged the fenced premises with a search warrant issued under the Sale of Liquor Act.
A large amount of alcohol, the cash till, more than $12,500 in cash, two refrigerators, five laptop computers, assorted documents, and substances believed to be illicit drugs were seized.
A truck was needed to take away the alcohol, mainly beer and spirits.
The 36 people entered a mixture of no-plea and not-guilty pleas with one pleading guilty so she could receive diversion.
All will reappear in the Nelson District Court on January 21.
They were: Geoffrey Brittain, a 42-year-old spray painter from Motueka; David Paul Kenneth Bruning, a 43-year-old digger from Ngatimoti; Natalie Jean Busch, 26 from Richmond; Gregory Jon Page, an unemployed 39-year-old from Takaka; Renee Frances Parata Salter, an unemployed 22-year-old from Nelson; Glyn Patrick Rutledge, 33 from Nelson; Peter John O'Connor, 52 from Otaki; Marcelle Fuller, 35 from Nelson; Donald James Galey, an unemployed 28-year-old from Reefton; Karl Phillip Holloway, 32-year-old driver from Whanganui; Donovan Bruce Wood, 35 from Upper Moutere; Michael Wiremu Wilson, 32 from Nelson; Virginia Elizabeth Walker, 33, from Nelson; Peter Richard Tasker, 54 from Whanganui; Allison Louise Stevenson, 42 from Nelson; Phillip Ernest Schubert, 63 from Auckland; Rima Junior Matangi, 39-year-old driver from Stoke; Vicki-Lee Longley, 24 from Stoke; Hayley Joanne Kirkwood, 29 from Brightwater; Sharon Leisa Jones, 37 from Richmond; Paul Edward Jones, 41 from Richmond; Douglas Arthur Jay, 52, from Franklin; Anna Heloise Horgan, 35 from Stoke; Nathan Waka Paul Hemana, 35 from Upper Hutt; Grant Roy Hayward, 39 from Nelson; Monique Elizabeth Gifford, 50 from Nelson; Odile Maria Gibbs, a 45-year-old clerk from Nelson; Jordan John Daly, 22 from Nelson; Michelle Lea Burgess, 28 from Nelson; Desmond Robert Black, a 55-year-old mechanic from Auckland; Alan Peter Begg, 51 from Tahunanui; Chantelle Linda Parker, 25 from Nelson; Robert Gerald Meredith, 49 from Nelson; Christopher Ian Schaab, 38 from Nelson and Matthew Donaldson, 28 from Nelson.
Russell Phillip Lloyd, 54 from Motueka, was charged with allowing an unlicensed premises to be used for the sale of liquor.