Man on the run ends in arrest
A two-week Bay of Plenty wide crime spree was fuelled by almost $1500 of stolen petrol, court documents have revealed.
The manhunt for the alleged offender, Te Morehu Enoka, 27, prompted police to shut down a South Waikato town before he was apprehended at a Rotorua property at approximately 11pm on Wednesday night.
Enoka, 27, dressed in a blue police boilersuit, appeared at Rotorua District Court via Audio Visual Link on Thursday.
More details have emerged of the 23 charges he faces, the most serious being use of a firearm against a police constable and grievous bodily harm, alleged to have been committed during the aggravated robbery of a Paengaroa Liquor Store in Western Bay of Plenty on May 14.
The alleged crime spree began on April 29 with the theft of $109.50 of petrol from a Rotorua Z Energy.
Over the next 14 days there were a further eight alleged petrol thefts totalling $1444.25, six breakins, the theft of a Ute, failure to stop, driving recklessly, driving while disqualified and the damage of a vehicle by fire.
Enoka’s arrest came after the Te Puke man allegedly drove off from a Tokoroa petrol station on Wednesday without paying.
Nearby Mangakino was in lockdown overnight Wednesday as attempts were made to hunt him down.