Brothers accused of threatening to control Northland police officers remanded in custodianship

The incident in Dargaville over the weekend is the sixth occasion Northland police officers have faced firearm the same violence in four months. Pic / supplied

Arranged of brothers accused of pointing the actual firearm at police and likely to kill the officers for Dargaville over the weekend have been remanded while custody.

Identity suppression is in place for the couple of men, aged 20 and 21, who appeared before a community justice of the peace in the Whangārei District Court today to face a raft of firearm and violence related charges.

Seven charges are laid against one of the brothers, specifically two of assaulting police, two of reducing arrest, a single charge of unhealthy to kill, dangerous driving and as well as intentionally damaging a motor vehicle.

The other brother is in front of five charges, two charges of a firearm against police, two of threatening to kill, and a eligible person charge of assaulting a officer.

During their primarily appearance in court today completely alleged the firearm involved was indeed an airgun.

Both men were remanded about custody until January 25 when they will appear via an audio –visual link.

An weekend’s incident marks the 6th occasion police have encountered presumed firearm violence while on the frontline in Northland in four months’ time.

In December Corey O’Connell, 31, appeared before Appraise John McDonald in the Kaikohe District Court. O’Connell was arrested afterwards police carried out a search warrant at an address in Maromaku, south on Kawakawa, on December 11 and then were fired at.

No one was hurt belonging to the incident.

In early September, several gunshots were shot at officers during a police journey that started in Otangarei, carried on in order to Onerahi, then to Tarewa Rd where the car being chased quitted and two people were arrested.

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A female police officer had not been hurt when she was terminated at by two men at October.
The patrol ride windscreen was peppered with shotgun pellets on Puketona Rd, shut off State Highway 10, just after 4am on October 27.

The incidents sparked a worldwide police operation and a search made by members of the Armed Offenders Squad at a series of properties on Matauri Bay Rd that were connected to the grabbing.

During the like night, ram-raids were carried out by a Four Square in Paihia and then a dairy in Moerewa. It is not nonetheless known if those raids are actually related to the other crimes.
The two main men are still at large.

Two shootings happened of November.

The pioneering was in Ōtangarei, where a sole police agency was allegedly shot at near an male driver who was later charged, together with a female.

Their cases are before the bulle.

Then worries Tangowahine on December 1, one wanted on cannabis and firearms’ charges allegedly shot at a authorities dog before being shot found on three times by police.

Both are recovering from their wounds, and a 30-year-old man has been asked to pay with using a firearm against an law enforcement officer on December only one, injuring a police dog, and after that unlawful possession of a. 357 magnum pistol and ammunition.

The most serious charge a substantial discharging a firearm against per police officer – carries a maximum time of 14 years in prison.