Mongrel Mob pair admit 57 charges

Two Mongrel Mob members admitted 57 drug charges when they appeared in Dunedin District Court yesterday.

Judge Stephen Coyle remanded James Rata Stevenson, 36, unemployed, president of the Dunedin chapter of the Mongrel Mob Aotearoa, and Teone Jack Thompson 27, unemployed, a senior member of the chapter, in custody for sentence on September 2.

The Otago Daily Times reported Stevenson and Thompson were charged jointly with 44 charges of selling cannabis, six charges of possessing cannabis for supply and seven charges of supplying cannabis. They also admitted conspiring with a third person to sell cannabis.

The men were charged as a result of Operation Rocket, a police investigation into the drug offending of the Mongrel Mob Aotearoa in the Dunedin area.

- NZPA