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Calen Morris is a 501 deportee and patched member of one of New Zealand’s most notorious motorcycle clubs - The Head Hunters. Calen shares his troubled past with crime and drug abuse, what it was like being deported to New Zealand and how even after leaving a life of crime, he still manages to draw police attention
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Approach production.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Tell me about when you were going to get deported.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, that was ship.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How did that come? How did they come across?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
First time I passed the character's test. I strongly believe
that it was. It was.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It all had to do with the with all the
refugees coming in on the boats. Back then, there was
like nine boats coming in the day. You know, that's
a lot of people. One hundred people on the boat
that was a day back then.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
So I I personally think that they put that rule
in just to think, just to get rid of the
refugees because they had to.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Take them in. But then when that rule was in place,
they could send them back to the old country. That's
how That's how I think feel. That's how what I've seen,
you know.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
But what your charges we you're on when you got
deported from there beating up the bouncers, that was the one.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So that's that's the one that you got deported on. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
fucking god.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I still know the fucking names. I won't dropping them now.
But if you're watching, you don't.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Know where they're working now, will you?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah? You know. At the same time, it's kind of
like fun, you guys providing.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Yeah, well there's no there was no footage, no camera
footage from that fright.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, the taps, the footage of me pulling down my
fucking pensts, the fucking kick cans in the head.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Jeans these stars.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Did. So how did they feel when you knowing that
you were you were getting deported and going back.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He was just down the whole hetmosphere and there was
just fucking ship. There's a there was one there. He
has been he's been there for seven years, but seven years.
He's from Papa New Guinea, his own country. Doesn't want
to wow. Yeah, but you know he I think he
killed him and stuff like that. At the same time,
(02:22):
it's like, fuck seven years.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
A lot of people just tried to hold on because
they thought that they could beat the process, but just nobody,
nobody could beat it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
How long were you on that? How long were you
waiting to be keet the port for.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well, my cousin was murdered, so I was trying to
hold on as long as I could. My cousin was murdered,
and then I just ended up heading the first person
that I could see to get myself on the fucking
plane out of there.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Yeah, I was gonna bring. I was gonna I was
going to bring going about your cousin Connor. And and
how how was that like waiting and knowing that you
know what happened to your cousin, Like I'm trying to
think when you know, I people have passed away and
in England and I can't go and see them, and
(03:07):
knowing that you're in a place where you you know,
you've got no one around but visitors down again, what
was going through your mind at that point when you
got the news about your cousin.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I believe I've gone through a lot of shit.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I think I was quite stable, to be honest, to
be quite fair, I was quite levelheaded, and I think
I was just trying to be strong for my family.
When it actually did happen.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
There was a long twenty four hours and then I
think years about nine o'clock that morning, that's when I dropped.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To the floor and just just cry it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, and then I got a hold of a mate
that used to bring us in packages in prison, and
then yeah, I hadn't spoken to her for a while
and I just got ahold of it, and I asked
her to bring me in some annexes can fucking cope.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, after that, I didn't know what to do, but
came here.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
The first night I stayed here, I got drunk with
my family here.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
At the.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
At a fight club. Yeah, at a fight club, at
a gym well like here and my headhunter's clubhouse. Yeah,
And I slept next to his body and carried his
body the next the next morning, my first morning in
(04:42):
New Zealand, was carrying my cousin's body into hers. So
it was a bit of a shop to myself, a
bit of a shop to my family. I was down
and out, My family were down and out, and.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I really didn't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So then was this after all that crystal meth ship
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I never smoked it, even in Australia, I didn't really sm.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A few times, you know, rich boys and port aking
in some boat shed a couple of times there because
that was about it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But I didn't like it just because of what it
did to your family.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And then yeah, I just started dabbling into that because
the scene over here was into that stuff, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That's there's hardly any coke with the coke is a
bit expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But yeah, well ten years ago?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Is that way?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When you is that when you joined the Headhunters when
you came.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Back eight years I think, yeah, eight years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, did you ever think you go down that path
to join an outlaw like that? Because you've always been
independent to me, but you've been independent with well.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, I had the Rebels hit me up and they're
still active now.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I had Comer has hit me up. It's still active now.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Been to the Black Humans clubhouse and and said here,
you know, just I've done all that ship right, but
I knew where my family is from, and after scene
my scenery here I liked. I like that scenery sort
of thing. Yeah I didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I was training at the fucking fitness first with the president.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And if he's watching, you remember the story.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And I was doing the fifty keys like dumb bells,
and he goes, oh, I won't do those, I'll do
the twiny.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And I looked down and then I go, well, look,
you're the president. Well yeah, they tried to get me
on just because I was annoyed to bug up. Yeah. Yeah,
and I robbed a few of his mates, had a
few meetings with him. Just give us roll expect.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, give us roll expect, send him on his way,
and he got he got the boot after that.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But yeah, I'm a respectful dude. Bro. If I'm righteous,
I'm righteous.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And that guy fucked up with me and my missus,
so he tried to do the old lean so I'll
lean them back real good.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
But but no, but you're you're you're happy at the
heads on you mate.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It's fucking different over here. The crew over here is
like family orientated, hard, you know what I mean. We've
got a family day coming up soon, so we've got
bounty castles and.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Food and a game of crash.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
We like, get to take out your differences on your brothers,
you know, give them a good clash.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I break my shoulder last fucking crash game.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
But yeah, you go, hundies. You know, you have fucking fun.
It's like a jail hard, bloody good game with scrag,
you know, like, yeah, crash game, both fucking it's enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
But I mean, yeah, there's a bad motherfuckers and our crew.
There's bad motherfuckers everywhere around here. But at the same time,
this club really taught me how to be a gentleman.
This club actually taught me how to be a maid man.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
What happened with the because I looked up to get
some info and I seen that the you you're you're
on gun charges for hidden loading guns underneath your floorboards. Yeah,
how the fuck did they know that you had fucking
the under your floorboards.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Whether there's a drug dog, the money dog, the guns
dog at the fucking house, the hell yeah, running down.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The side of my house. Lived in the back of
a bush. I should have hit me. Guns in the bush?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Go on the bush. You might find a couple because
we lost them taking cowboat. Don't go looking in the bush.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
What's your outgo on on on this? This is what
I want to ask someone.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So when you get raided by the gang squad, they
come in and they just fucking trash your place, don't
give a fuck about what you've got, even if they're
you know, they're just they're doing it because infiliation, or
they're doing it because you know, fucking whatever they are,
And they did, they fuck your whole place up, leave
it trashed. They're not gonna pay for it. What's your
(09:17):
fucking what's what's your thing on that?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Stand your ground, Brian, Just stand in your ground. You
know it is a good one for you. I gotta
I got a computer. I just you know, I could
do some lives and that. So they took my computer.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
So as soon as I took it, when I got bailed,
you go and buy another computer.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know what I mean. You don't live in when
don't let them stop with you what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
But you think, but but you think they should be
like that should be stopped. Like they haven't got the
right really to fucking trust your place, you know what
I mean, And make even if you've got a partner
there and they kind of like, you know, make fun
of your partner going through a private things and all
like that, you know what I mean, humiliating, humiliating you,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty disturbing. I mean I don't enjoy it,
not at all.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Especially if you've got kids there too, and they don't
give a fuck about like letting the kids see what's
going on.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
And that's probably probably where I'm a little bit selfish
with things.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's the is with my kids.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, my son is quite intelligent, but he also does
have like a helping aid at school just because he
has like little outbursts and whatnot. Knows how to throw
a good one too in my life.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But I've seen though that the police harassment on you
is pretty pretty massive at the moment.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's massive, I'm probably, yeah, I would have to be
fucking the gender.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Man, the number one target, the number one target. Yeah,
why do you think that is?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I give them the you do and sometimes you get.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
A little bit dirty and a little bit dark, and
you we can't do anything, you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
But you can't do like little teaky little things like
make that sign over there.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
All right, I had no money. I didn't even have
a dollar. Bro, I said, I didn't have a dollar.
I went and borrowed two thousand dollars, right, I borrowed
two thousand dollars. After I just got bailed, and I
made those signs. So when I made those signs, you know,
it's very hard. This place is very very small, and
(11:35):
I just stapled them up in a few places. So
you know, when you come outside and you drink your coffee,
you're like, oh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah. About two weeks later I got raided again. Nice signs,
mister Morris,
Approach production.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Tell me about when you were going to get deported.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, that was ship.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How did that come? How did they come across?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
First time I passed the character's test. I strongly believe
that it was. It was.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It all had to do with the with all the
refugees coming in on the boats. Back then, there was
like nine boats coming in the day. You know, that's
a lot of people. One hundred people on the boat
that was a day back then.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
So I I personally think that they put that rule
in just to think, just to get rid of the
refugees because they had to.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Take them in. But then when that rule was in place,
they could send them back to the old country. That's
how That's how I think feel. That's how what I've seen,
you know.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
But what your charges we you're on when you got
deported from there beating up the bouncers, that was the one.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So that's that's the one that you got deported on. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
fucking god.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I still know the fucking names. I won't dropping them now.
But if you're watching, you don't.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Know where they're working now, will you?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah? You know. At the same time, it's kind of
like fun, you guys providing.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Yeah, well there's no there was no footage, no camera
footage from that fright.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, the taps, the footage of me pulling down my
fucking pensts, the fucking kick cans in the head.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Jeans these stars.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Did. So how did they feel when you knowing that
you were you were getting deported and going back.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He was just down the whole hetmosphere and there was
just fucking ship. There's a there was one there. He
has been he's been there for seven years, but seven years.
He's from Papa New Guinea, his own country. Doesn't want
to wow. Yeah, but you know he I think he
killed him and stuff like that. At the same time,
(02:22):
it's like, fuck seven years.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
A lot of people just tried to hold on because
they thought that they could beat the process, but just nobody,
nobody could beat it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
How long were you on that? How long were you
waiting to be keet the port for.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well, my cousin was murdered, so I was trying to
hold on as long as I could. My cousin was murdered,
and then I just ended up heading the first person
that I could see to get myself on the fucking
plane out of there.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Yeah, I was gonna bring. I was gonna I was
going to bring going about your cousin Connor. And and
how how was that like waiting and knowing that you
know what happened to your cousin, Like I'm trying to
think when you know, I people have passed away and
in England and I can't go and see them, and
(03:07):
knowing that you're in a place where you you know,
you've got no one around but visitors down again, what
was going through your mind at that point when you
got the news about your cousin.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I believe I've gone through a lot of shit.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I think I was quite stable, to be honest, to
be quite fair, I was quite levelheaded, and I think
I was just trying to be strong for my family.
When it actually did happen.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
There was a long twenty four hours and then I
think years about nine o'clock that morning, that's when I dropped.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To the floor and just just cry it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, and then I got a hold of a mate
that used to bring us in packages in prison, and
then yeah, I hadn't spoken to her for a while
and I just got ahold of it, and I asked
her to bring me in some annexes can fucking cope.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, after that, I didn't know what to do, but
came here.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
The first night I stayed here, I got drunk with
my family here.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
At the.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
At a fight club. Yeah, at a fight club, at
a gym well like here and my headhunter's clubhouse. Yeah,
And I slept next to his body and carried his
body the next the next morning, my first morning in
(04:42):
New Zealand, was carrying my cousin's body into hers. So
it was a bit of a shop to myself, a
bit of a shop to my family. I was down
and out, My family were down and out, and.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I really didn't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So then was this after all that crystal meth ship
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I never smoked it, even in Australia, I didn't really sm.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A few times, you know, rich boys and port aking
in some boat shed a couple of times there because
that was about it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But I didn't like it just because of what it
did to your family.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And then yeah, I just started dabbling into that because
the scene over here was into that stuff, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That's there's hardly any coke with the coke is a
bit expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But yeah, well ten years ago?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Is that way?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When you is that when you joined the Headhunters when
you came.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Back eight years I think, yeah, eight years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, did you ever think you go down that path
to join an outlaw like that? Because you've always been
independent to me, but you've been independent with well.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, I had the Rebels hit me up and they're
still active now.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I had Comer has hit me up. It's still active now.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Been to the Black Humans clubhouse and and said here,
you know, just I've done all that ship right, but
I knew where my family is from, and after scene
my scenery here I liked. I like that scenery sort
of thing. Yeah I didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I was training at the fucking fitness first with the president.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And if he's watching, you remember the story.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And I was doing the fifty keys like dumb bells,
and he goes, oh, I won't do those, I'll do
the twiny.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And I looked down and then I go, well, look,
you're the president. Well yeah, they tried to get me
on just because I was annoyed to bug up. Yeah. Yeah,
and I robbed a few of his mates, had a
few meetings with him. Just give us roll expect.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, give us roll expect, send him on his way,
and he got he got the boot after that.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But yeah, I'm a respectful dude. Bro. If I'm righteous,
I'm righteous.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And that guy fucked up with me and my missus,
so he tried to do the old lean so I'll
lean them back real good.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
But but no, but you're you're you're happy at the
heads on you mate.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It's fucking different over here. The crew over here is
like family orientated, hard, you know what I mean. We've
got a family day coming up soon, so we've got
bounty castles and.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Food and a game of crash.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
We like, get to take out your differences on your brothers,
you know, give them a good clash.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I break my shoulder last fucking crash game.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
But yeah, you go, hundies. You know, you have fucking fun.
It's like a jail hard, bloody good game with scrag,
you know, like, yeah, crash game, both fucking it's enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
But I mean, yeah, there's a bad motherfuckers and our crew.
There's bad motherfuckers everywhere around here. But at the same time,
this club really taught me how to be a gentleman.
This club actually taught me how to be a maid man.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
What happened with the because I looked up to get
some info and I seen that the you you're you're
on gun charges for hidden loading guns underneath your floorboards. Yeah,
how the fuck did they know that you had fucking
the under your floorboards.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Whether there's a drug dog, the money dog, the guns
dog at the fucking house, the hell yeah, running down.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The side of my house. Lived in the back of
a bush. I should have hit me. Guns in the bush?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Go on the bush. You might find a couple because
we lost them taking cowboat. Don't go looking in the bush.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
What's your outgo on on on this? This is what
I want to ask someone.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So when you get raided by the gang squad, they
come in and they just fucking trash your place, don't
give a fuck about what you've got, even if they're
you know, they're just they're doing it because infiliation, or
they're doing it because you know, fucking whatever they are,
And they did, they fuck your whole place up, leave
it trashed. They're not gonna pay for it. What's your
(09:17):
fucking what's what's your thing on that?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Stand your ground, Brian, Just stand in your ground. You
know it is a good one for you. I gotta
I got a computer. I just you know, I could
do some lives and that. So they took my computer.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
So as soon as I took it, when I got bailed,
you go and buy another computer.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know what I mean. You don't live in when
don't let them stop with you what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
But you think, but but you think they should be
like that should be stopped. Like they haven't got the
right really to fucking trust your place, you know what
I mean, And make even if you've got a partner
there and they kind of like, you know, make fun
of your partner going through a private things and all
like that, you know what I mean, humiliating, humiliating you,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty disturbing. I mean I don't enjoy it,
not at all.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Especially if you've got kids there too, and they don't
give a fuck about like letting the kids see what's
going on.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
And that's probably probably where I'm a little bit selfish
with things.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's the is with my kids.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, my son is quite intelligent, but he also does
have like a helping aid at school just because he
has like little outbursts and whatnot. Knows how to throw
a good one too in my life.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But I've seen though that the police harassment on you
is pretty pretty massive at the moment.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's massive, I'm probably, yeah, I would have to be
fucking the gender.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Man, the number one target, the number one target. Yeah,
why do you think that is?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I give them the you do and sometimes you get.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
A little bit dirty and a little bit dark, and
you we can't do anything, you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
But you can't do like little teaky little things like
make that sign over there.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
All right, I had no money. I didn't even have
a dollar. Bro, I said, I didn't have a dollar.
I went and borrowed two thousand dollars, right, I borrowed
two thousand dollars. After I just got bailed, and I
made those signs. So when I made those signs, you know,
it's very hard. This place is very very small, and
(11:35):
I just stapled them up in a few places. So
you know, when you come outside and you drink your coffee,
you're like, oh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah. About two weeks later I got raided again. Nice signs,
mister Morris,
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