A 23-year-old man has been charged with discharging a firearm after a Whakatāne school was put in lockdown yesterday.
Police initally received reports a person with a firearm had driven a vehicle onto a property near Thornton School at 2.24pm on Thursday.
A reporter from the Rotorua Daily Post saw Armed Offenders Squad assisting Bay of Plenty police in Thornton near Whakatāne. She later witnessed armed police walking a handcuffed, shirtless man to a police truck.
Police confirmed a man was taken into custody following an incident in Thornton and there were no injuries.
