A man has been arrested over a firearms incident that sent Port Chalmers School into lockdown last month, police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Constable Liam Guthrie, of Port Chalmers, said\u00a0police received a report of a man allegedly walking past the school with a firearm on May 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Police conducted a number of enquiries into this incident, resulting in the execution of a search warrant,” Const Guthrie said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“During the search, a 36-year-old man was located and he was taken into custody without incident.”<\/p>\n
Police also said they located and seized an imitation firearm during the June 10 search and arrest.<\/p>\n
The man is due to reappear in Dunedin District Court at a later date, charged with carrying an imitation firearm without reasonable excuse.<\/p>\n
Constable Guthrie said police understand the concern the public may have had following this incident and hope this arrest provides reassurance to the community.<\/p>\n
“We would also like to thank the members of the community who have assisted us in our enquiries.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with further information regarding this matter can contact police online at 105.police.govt.nz or call 105, quoting file number: 260518\/4942<\/p>\n
Alternatively, you can provide information anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111 quoting the same file number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested over a firearms incident that sent Port Chalmers School into lockdown last month,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-480017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/480017","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=480017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}