Gun drama outside pub

Police were called to the Shakespeare Brewery hotel in central Auckland late last night after reports that a man with a gun was outside. About a dozen patrol vehicles blocked off Wyndham St shortly after 11pm.

Three officers jumped on the man and forced him to the ground. David Ormston and Andy Wassall, who were having a beer inside, said they heard the police yell, "Drop the gun, drop the gun!" The man also had what appeared to be a piece of glass, with which he is believed to have cut the arm of one of the officers.