A police investigation into the assault on a four-year-old in a Whakatane park has resulted in the arrest of a 21-year-old local man.

Black Power members say they want to track down the attacker of a boy, 4, so they can deal to him before police.

It may be a race between police and Black Power gang members as to who catches a man who assaulted a four-year-old boy because he was wearing a red shirt.

A four-year-old was assaulted in a Whakatane park simply for wearing a red shirt, the colour associated with the Mongrel Mob.

A gang member is accused of kidnapping and raping a woman who says she was able to escape after drugging his coffee with codeine.

Premier says Carl Williams was a serial killer and a royal commission into his death would be a waste of taxpayers' money.

The murder of former Melbourne crime boss Carl Williams has opened a new can of worms.

Joshua Peter Brennan should get credit for the moral and physical courage required to break his link with the Mongrel Mob, Judge Raoul Neave said today as he jailed the armed robber for nine-and-a-half years.

A highly organised gang is believed to have escaped with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and jewellery in a string of armed raids across Auckland.

Three teenage boys were arrested last night in relation to a pack attack which left two police officers seriously injured.

A 28-year-old woman has admitted spitting into a police officer's mouth and kicking two officers in the groin.

An ex-gangster's wife has admitted using documents to dishonestly claim $12,000 from taxpayers.