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\nPolice have arrested two people, who are due to appear in the North Shore District Court on Monday 4 May on a number of charges.
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Police have laid charges after two separate incidents in which motorists were followed, forced to stop and threatened with a firearm.<\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Ben Bergin said in a media release both events occurred last Saturday, one in Northland one in Waitemat\u0101.<\/p>\n
Police have arrested two people, who are due to appear in the North Shore District Court on Monday 4 May on a number of charges related to the offending.<\/p>\n
That included intentional damage, dangerous driving, possession of methamphetamine for supply and committing an imprisonable offence with a weapon, Bergin said.<\/p>\n
“These incidents left the victims understandably shaken, and we acted swiftly to locate those we believe to be responsible.<\/p>\n
“We will not tolerate this intimidating and violent offending.”<\/p>\n
The alleged offenders were aged 46 and 30 from Bay of Plenty and Northland respectively.<\/p>\n
Police said they were not ruling out that there may be other victims from similar incidents on Saturday.<\/p>\n
They would like to hear from anyone who may have been targeted in a similar way – such as being followed, forced to stop, or threatened with a firearm last Saturday in the Northland or Waitemat\u0101 area, Bergin said.<\/p>\n
Police were also working to determine whether the reports were linked to a firearm that was found in the Mangawhai area on the same day, and handed into them.<\/p>\n
Police were asking anyone with information about these incidents to contact them through the 105 service, either online or over the phone with the reference number 260425\/4175.<\/p>\n