Dunedin Police were kept busy across the long weekend with an assault on an officer, a man showing off an imitation pistol and a maskless couple refusing to leave a store.
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said at 10.30pm on Sunday a 26-year-old male had entered a Great King St address with some associates while carrying a knife.
The man had ‘‘beef’’ with one of the occupants, Snr Sgt Bond said.
The knife was located on the balcony and the male was located hiding in a vehicle behind the address.
He was arrested and while being processed allegedly assaulted a police officer.
The man grabbed the officer’s arm, pulled her towards him and stated he would break her wrist and knock her out, Snr Sgt Bond said.
He was charged with committing a burglary with a weapon and with assaulting a police officer.
At 4.20am yesterday, an intoxicated man returned to the taxi depot in Leith St in search of his lost phone, which he believed to be in a taxi.
The man was knocking on the door and smashed the window of a taxi.
He was arrested, but released without charges.
At 3pm on Sunday police were called to the Four Square in Outram after a 29-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman refused to leave the store when asked.
The policy of the store was all customers must wear a mask, but the couple refused.
Police trespassed the pair.
At 3am on Saturday police received calls to reports of a man with a pistol, who was allegedly brandishing the weapon and showing it to people as they walked past.
Police attended and spoke to a 26-year-old man carrying a starting pistol in the waistband of his track pants.
The man was arrested for unlawfully carrying an imitation firearm and presenting something that was believed to be a prohibited firearm at a person.
