The Armed Offenders Squad, dog handlers and a police helicopter searched for an armed man in rural South Wairarapa yesterday. PHOTO/FILE
A day-long manhunt has led to the arrest of a man alleged to have aimed a high-powered rifle at people near the coastal settlement of Te Awaiti.
The Armed Offenders Squad, dog handlers and a police helicopter were deployed in the search for the man, which began shortly before 10am
yesterday after police received several reports of an armed man in the area.
Te Awaiti farmer Bridget Mathewson said she rang the police after two men came to her farm and said a man had pointed a high-powered rifle at them.
The men told her they had stopped at the top of the hill as they realised there would be no further cellphone coverage.
When they stopped a Maori man parked in a blue car pointed a rifle at them and looked through the scope at them, she said.
