Salanoa faces charges of aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon after allegedly attacking a man with the samurai sword, court documents show.<\/p>\n
Police said they were called to a property on Anne St about 12.35pm<\/a> that day after reports a man had entered a property armed with a \u201clong-bladed weapon\u201d and attempted to steal a vehicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n The property in question has an estimated value of $2 million to $3 million.<\/p>\n Speaking to the Herald, a neighbour yesterday 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 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":"Salanoa faces charges of aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon after allegedly attacking a man with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,806,9218,682,46919,46916,46918,9861,5126,37107,10136,111,43,139,69,675,814,46917,45709,10117,45710,28355,46915,102],"class_list":["post-55707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accused","tag-as","tag-before","tag-being","tag-bitten","tag-burglaryaccused","tag-burgle","tag-charles","tag-john","tag-multimilliondollar","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-property","tag-salanoa","tag-samurai","tag-shot","tag-sword","tag-trying","tag-wadestown","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707","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=55707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707\/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=55707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}