Live action blogging … almost! Taken at dusk this evening – armed squad scoping the lane across from our place.
They were there until after dark when it all ended uneventfully as far as we could tell at our end of the lane. Nothing on the web or radio about it yet.
Update 7.20am 4 January 2007:
Found the perfect news item to match what was going on across the road last night except that it’s a way down the other end of the city! Could there have been 2 incidents or has this reporter really messed up?
Dangerous man eludes police
By DAVID DICKENS – The Dominion Post | Thursday, 4 January 2007
A man believed to be dangerous remains at large after an armed police raid of an inner-city Wellington apartment block failed to locate him.
Lower Tory St, between Wakefield St and Courtenay Place, was closed to road and foot traffic for about half an hour early last night in what police described as a serious incident.
Details about the man who eluded the swoop are sketchy.
Wellington police said the man they were searching for was not the Newtown rapist or a gang member but must be considered dangerous.
“We used the armed offenders because of the kind of guy he is,” said Sergeant Marc Clausen.
“The person we were looking for was not there.”
The man was thought to have been holed up in the Maison Cabriole apartments.
At least a dozen members of the armed offenders squad searched the building for about 30 minutes. One officer carried a sniper’s rifle.
Source: www.stuff.co.nz
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