Mobster scores 100 . . . not out for years
A 55-year-old Mongrel Mob member who said five years ago he wanted to quit crime was back in court yesterday to receive a jail sentence for methamphetamine dealing on a “significant” scale.
Shayne Johanes Teddy has compiled more than 100 convictions stretching to 1983.
Teddy appeared before Judge Bridget Mackintosh in the Napier District Court after admitting possession of methamphetamine for supply, supplying methamphetamine, possession of cannabis plants for supply and receiving property over $1000.
She jailed him for four years on the meth charges and three years on the cannabis charge, to be served concurrently.
Teddy appeared in the same court in late 2016, and was jailed then for four years for offering to supply meth and three years for possession of a firearm, assault with a weapon and attempting to pervert the course of justice, also to be served concurrently.
At that time, Judge Geoff Rea said Teddy, then 50, had written him a letter saying it was time to “call this sort of a lifestyle quits”.
The previous year, Teddy had been the subject of an hours-long operation and manhunt by armed police after a firearms-related domestic incident in Napier.
Instead of quitting his lifestyle after his jail term, Teddy returned to prospecting for the Mongrel Mob and meth dealing on what Judge Mackintosh said was a “significant” scale.
He was in possession of 230g of methamphetamine and 213g of cannabis when police arrested him in 2020. His texts and messages with a supplier in Rotorua recorded a number of orders.
Judge Mackintosh said Teddy had recorded 98 convictions between 1983 to 2016.