A Masterton man has admitted to threatening to shoot a police officer.
Kevin Stephen Jones, 29, shearer, pleaded guilty to threatening to do grievous bodily harm when he appeared before Judge Chris Tuohy in the Masterton District Court recently.
The court heard previously that on June 1, Jones confronted the
officer with a .44 Magnum gun after the officer had been called to a property as a result of a family argument.
Jones told the officer "to get his dog out of the car because he was going to shoot that first and then was going to shoot the officer", the court was told.
As the officer tried to move away to a safe place, Jones continued telling him he was going to shoot him, police prosecutor Garry Wilson had told the court.
