Mongrel Mob members huddled together and barked like dogs as a child's body was removed from the water.

The mother of a murdered Bay of Plenty teenager said today she was unable to describe how she felt about her son's "brutal, absolutely senseless death". A Mongrel Mob member ran down Jordan Herewini in Murupara last year.

Crossbows, $20,000 cash, methamphetamine and a Harley Davidson motorcycle were among goods seized during a series of police raids on Hells Angels gang houses in Auckland and Napier this morning.

Seven people have been arrested after drug raids on nine properties including the Hells Angels Auckland HQ today. Police said the raids came on the back of an 'intensive' two month investigation into a Hawkes Bay methamphetamine ring.

Police and soldiers charged into Rio's most dangerous slum at daybreak to arrest a leading drug lord.

Three men have been jailed for their part in a south Auckland drug ring run by the notorious Killer Beez gang.

The pharmacist jailed for his role in supplying a drug ring with pseudoephedrine could lose $129,000.

A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.

People being investigated by police over serious fraud-related offences or gang crimes will no longer have the right to remain silent, under a Govt bill.

Two men who escaped from the Manukau District Court about 10am yesterday are dangerous and not to be approached by members of the public, police say.

A judge has paid tribute to the bravery of a bar manager and a patron who foiled the armed robbery of a Christchurch bar.