Police alert for funeral
PA Napier Police throughout the central North Island are keeping a close watch on the movements of known Mongrel Mob and Black Power gang members leading up to the funeral of two men who died as a result of last Saturday evening’s gang shootout in Wairoa. In one incident, armed police stopped Mongrel' Mob members travelling to Wairoa from Gisborne — searching their vehicles and checking identities and criminal records. The police were also wary of movements by Black Power members expected at the tangihanga of their dead comrades, John Hoani Ranginui and John Rewi Ranginui.
The funeral will be held today at the tiny onepoliceman township of Tuai, on the shores of Lake Waikaremoana, Extra police were on standby in Gisborne in case of further trouble in Wairoa where police have still not arrested anyone for the killing of the two men. Members of the two gangs arrested in the armed searches which followed the shootout remain separated. While Mongrel Mob members were detained in Napier Prison awaiting further court appearances today, those Black Power members remanded in custody were moved from Gisborne to the Waikeria Detention Centre, near Otorohanga.
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Press, 12 October 1988, Page 8
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