Spate of juvenile crime
PA Wanganui Youths in Wanganui have stolen gelignite to blow up a car, a building “or something, just to see what would happen.” The head of the Wanganui C. 1.8. (Detective
Senior-Sergeant R. L. Butler) said that special teams and procedures had been established to deal with a spate of juvenile
crime in Wanganui, some of which could have extremely serious consequences. Mr Butler said youths believed to be implicated in a series of offences in Wanganui since midJune had been experimenting with stolen gelignite. They had displayed an ignorance of what they were about and that could
easily kill them. Mr Butler said that three youths believed to be involved in a lot of offences, including the gelignite theft, had been arrested. The police still seek another youth. The gelignite was stolen from a Railways store. Mr Butler said that another disturbing feature of the juvenile crime
pattern was that not all were boys. Many were girls, who were likely to be implicated in thefts from houses during the day, and in thefts and burglaries at schools at night and at the week-end. “It is now a major problem, this brazen and persistent offending by both boys and girls,” Mr Butler said.
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