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Tourist Jailed For Child Sexual Abuse Cartoons
Friday, 17 May 2013, 3:24 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A German tourist has been jailed for ten months for importing objectionable publications and images, after Customs found over 35,000 child sexual abuse images on his laptop. More >>
Customs Focuses Efforts On White Powder Psychoactives
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 12:27 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs is cracking down on importers of psychoactive substances through targeted efforts at the border. More >>
Man Sentenced For Importing Drugs In Ornaments
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 1:21 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The vigilance of a freight forwarding company has ultimately led to an Auckland man being sentenced for attempting to import the precursor drug Contac NT. More >>
Gun parts imported to build submachine gun
Friday, 10 May 2013, 4:37 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 55 year old unemployed Christchurch man, Christopher Robin Horgan, was today sentenced for importing firearms parts for a military-style submachine gun. He has been fined $1000 and the firearms parts will be destroyed. More >>
Close call for Customs officer; stun gun man fined
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A Customs officer was almost stunned, literally, when an illegal stun gun disguised as a torch discharged during a baggage search. The traveller was prosecuted and has been fined $400. More >>
Man jailed for million dollar drugs hidden in chopsticks
Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 6:05 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
As a result of a Customs sting, a 20 year old Auckland man was sentenced in the Manukau District Court today to two years and one month’ imprisonment for importing over 3.4 kilograms of ContacNT concealed inside batteries and metal chopsticks. More >>
Taiwanese woman arrested for $900k worth of ‘P’
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 5:51 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 47 year old Taiwanese woman was arrested and charged at Auckland International Airport last night after Customs officers found approximately 900 grams of crystal methamphetamine (‘P’) in her possession. The drugs have a street value of approximately ... More >>
Customs seizes cactus sports supplement
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 5:45 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
There has been a sharp rise in Customs interceptions of a sports supplement which contains the endangered cactus, Hoodia Gordonii. Customs warns the public not to import this product. More >>
Store man sentenced for storing child sexual abuse stories
Friday, 12 April 2013, 9:37 am | New Zealand Customs Service
A 57 year old Auckland store man, who was sentenced yesterday for importing child objectionable material through online forums and websites, admitted he was relieved when Customs officers knocked on his door. More >>
Customs warns fake ecstasy importers and users
Thursday, 11 April 2013, 12:18 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs says the sentencing of an unemployed Invercargill man yesterday to two years’ imprisonment for importing over $21,000 worth of the ecstasy mimic, bk-MDMA, sends a clear warning to all such importers that they will be caught and prosecuted. Justin ... More >>
China Customs to trial new import clearance procedures
Monday, 8 April 2013, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The General Administration of China Customs (China Customs) and the New Zealand Customs Service announced today a trial of new procedures that will allow for the clearing of New Zealand goods held in bonded storage (Special Customs Control Areas and Bonded ... More >>
International student sentenced for child sex abuse images
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 5:32 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
An international student was today sentenced at the Auckland District Court to nine months’ home detention for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material. This marks the second successful Customs prosecution in two weeks. More >>
Customs arrest Hamilton locals for importing psychoactives
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 5:11 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Three Hamilton locals were arrested yesterday as a result of Customs’ focus on psychoactive substances being intercepted through the mail. More >>
Customs voted most attractive public service employer again
Friday, 22 March 2013, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has again been voted New Zealand’s Most Attractive Employer for the public sector in the Randstad awards. The organisation was also named the second most attractive organisation to work for in the overall awards category. More >>
Teen sentenced for trading child sexual abuse images
Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 11:16 am | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs is calling on parents and guardians to pay more attention to what their children are doing online, after a New Plymouth teenager was yesterday sentenced for the online trading of child sexual abuse images. More >>
Mouthwash Leaves Man With Bad Taste
Friday, 1 March 2013, 3:20 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
When Customs officers opened a package declared to contain contact lens solution, they found a mouthwash bottle filled with a clear liquid. As a result of an investigation, a Christchurch man was yesterday sentenced for importing the Class B controlled drug ... More >>
Five million faces
Monday, 25 February 2013, 2:08 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
SmartGate, Customs’ automated passenger processing system, reached a new milestone of over five million users today. Deputy Comptroller Robert Lake says SmartGate, which was introduced at airports in December 2009, has become increasingly popular, ... More >>
Mushrooms not so magic for Nelson retiree
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 1:52 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
People importing drugs for personal use have been put on notice following the sentencing of a Nelson retiree who received cannabis and magic mushrooms from a friend through the mail. More >>
Single electronic window for importers and exporters
Monday, 18 February 2013, 3:06 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A single electronic window for goods to pass safely through New Zealand’s border will be introduced in stages from April by Customs and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). More >>
Jail sentence for drugs concealed in teddy and bike
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 6:42 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs today welcomed the sentencing of an Auckland man in the Manukau District Court to six years and seven months’ imprisonment for importing 16.5 kilograms of ContacNT, a cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine that can be used to manufacture ... More >>
