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<\/p>\nA man was allegedly holding a loaded crossbow when police officers arrived at the scene of a crash in Palmerston North, where a range of weapons were found. <\/p>\n
Emergency services were sent to the corner of Bourke St and Walding St at around 1.40am on Saturday, after police received a call that had been generated from an automatic crash alert \u2014 a feature on many newer smartphones. <\/p>\n
A single “hello” was heard before the call disconnected and attempts to call the person back went unanswered, according to police. <\/p>\n
Manawat\u016b Acting Area Commander Inspector Phil Ward said officers arrived to then find a vehicle had crashed into the side of a commercial building on Bourke St. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe man who had reportedly been driving was standing next to the vehicle, uninjured, reportedly holding a crossbow that was loaded and ready to fire,” Ward said. <\/p>\n
“However, he dropped this immediately when challenged by officers.”<\/p>\n
The man was taken into custody, and police searched the vehicle and surrounding area, discovering he had allegedly been attempting to hide weapons in nearby bushes. <\/p>\n
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Several weapons uncovered by police from the scene. Source: NZ Police (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
“Police located and seized a stolen .22 rifle, an air rifle, four samurai swords in sheaths, a machete, a crossbow and arrows, a large hunting knife, and a large amount of ammunition,” Ward said. <\/p>\n
A 22-year-old man is due in the Palmerston North District Court on June 18. <\/p>\n
He faces charges including driving with excess breath alcohol, careless driving, unlawfully possessing a firearm, possession of offensive weapons and possession of a knife in public.<\/p>\n
Ward praised both attending officers and emergency staff for their swift response to the automatic crash alert. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was allegedly holding a loaded crossbow when police officers arrived at the scene of a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,31044,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-476347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}