A poker participant from Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, imprisoned in 2018 for drug smuggling, noticed his sentenced elevated this week – due to extra drug smuggling.
Shane Thompson, above, gained the Sky Metropolis Competition of Poker most important occasion in 2016. In 2018, a decide described him as “essentially the most complete methamphetamine seller Hawke’s Bay has ever seen.”(Picture: New Zealand Herald)
Shane Thompson, often known as Shane Tamihana, loved success on the poker tables within the mid-2010s. The spotlight was successful the primary occasion on the Sky Metropolis On line casino’s Competition of Poker in 2016 for US$36,555. It was in all probability the one “sincere” cash he made that 12 months.
Thompson was reportedly an aggressive poker participant who favored to name out the phrase “Later Bo” as he knocked an opponent out of a event in an disagreeable breach of poker etiquette.
However his luck ran out in 2017 when he was nailed for dealing meth. When police raided his residence, they discovered 2.6kg of the drug and greater than NZ$170K (US$100K) in money. In 2018, a decide described Thompson as “essentially the most complete methamphetamine seller Hawke’s Bay has ever seen” earlier than sentencing him to 13 years in jail.
Thompson made it 15 years Friday after he was discovered responsible of organizing a small amount of methamphetamine to be smuggled in for one more prisoner in January this 12 months, The New Zealand Herald stories.
Unlawful Cellphone
Decide Bridget Waterproof coat at Napier District Court docket sentenced Thompson to 23 months, which can be added to the time period he’s already serving. That’s for supplying methamphetamine, smuggling, and unauthorized possession of a mobile phone.
Thompson used the unlawful cellphone to contact an unknown particular person to offer the medication, which have been handed to a girl who was because of go to one other inmate.
Johnson’s lawyer, Eric Forster, argued that Thompson had finished this “merely [as] a favor” to the inmate and never for any private acquire. However Waterproof coat mentioned Thompson’s conduct “undermine[d] any rehabilitation applications in jail and undermine[d] jail self-discipline.”
Meth Empire
Prosecutors accused Thompson of being the pinnacle of a sprawling legal community that flooded $4.2 million value of meth into the Hawke’s Bay area over 11 months in 2016 and 2017.
In 2018, New Zealand’s Police Asset Restoration Unit seized 5 automobiles and NZ$130K in money from Thompson and his second-in-command, Petera Gamlen. In 2022, authorities have been granted courtroom orders to grab Thompson’s residence, an extra car, and financial institution deposits totaling greater than NZ$90K, regardless of his try to cover these belongings by registering them underneath aliases.
In Might 2023, Thompson tried to have his sentence diminished in New Zealand’s Supreme Court docket. He argued that the no-parole interval of six and a half years connected to his sentence undermined the established authorized customary of granting reductions for responsible pleas. The bid was unsuccessful.
