Speaking to the Herald, a neighbour alleged a man had entered the complainant\u2019s garage with the sword and had been spotted on security cameras trying to steal a Porsche. The homeowner had called the police upon seeing the man on the cameras.<\/p>\n
Police earlier said the man began damaging the property upon being challenged, and on police arrival, he was sprayed with OC spray.<\/p>\n
He retreated to a room in the house and refused to come out. He then allegedly became violent and \u201cpresented a threat to attending staff while still in possession of his weapon\u201d, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOC spray and Tasers have been used, and when the man has continued to escalate, a single shot has been fired by a police staff member.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Armed Offenders Squad and Police Negotiation Team have then arrived, and the man has been taken into custody with the assistance of a police dog about 2.20pm.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was taken to hospital to be treated for a dog bite, and had also suffered a superficial wound to his shoulder.<\/p>\n
Court documents show he allegedly attacked a man, using a samurai sword as a weapon, during the fracas.<\/p>\n
A court registrar confirmed the defendant is still in hospital, so will appear in court by video link with a custody officer.<\/p>\n
One neighbour told the Herald on Wednesday the area did have burglaries sometimes, noting a separate occasion when another neighbour spotted a man trying to break into her garage.<\/p>\n
The woman, who said she loved murder mystery stories, was absorbed in her book when she was startled by a police officer knocking on the door to inform her of the attempted break-in. <\/p>\n
\u201cI told him he interrupted a very important part of the book,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She was unfazed by the most recent incident near her house, saying she kept a walking stick beside her bed in case of intruders.<\/p>\n
Another local said it was a \u201chorrifying bloody thing to happen in our neighbourhood\u201d. <\/p>\n
He said he would be \u201cslightly more watchful\u201d as a result of the alleged burglary.<\/p>\n
Wellington District Commander Superintendent Corrie Parnell said on Sunday this was a fast-moving situation involving a volatile offender.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are fortunate this incident was resolved with no injury to our staff or members of the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be ensuring the victims of the initial burglary incident receive support, as they are understandably very traumatised by what\u2019s happened today,\u201d Parnell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur staff attending the incident will also be supported.\u201d<\/p>\n
The matter will be referred to the IPCA, as is standard procedure for incidents of this nature.<\/p>\n
Melissa Nightingale is a Wellington-based reporter who covers crime, justice and news in the capital. She joined the Herald in 2016 and has worked as a journalist for 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to the Herald, a neighbour alleged a man had entered the complainant\u2019s garage with the sword and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1554,7818,7814,5765,45662,34464,71,10938,1345,685,37107,111,43,139,69,675,42823,814,45709,10117,36096,45710,61,13920,10939,4767,52,102],"class_list":["post-53701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-armed","tag-attempted","tag-burglar","tag-entered","tag-from","tag-herald","tag-home","tag-last","tag-multimilliondollar","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-porsche","tag-property","tag-samurai","tag-shot","tag-steal","tag-sword","tag-to","tag-tried","tag-understands","tag-weekend","tag-wellington","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701","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=53701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}