Queenstown police last night apprehended Pita Wilson after a six-day manhunt following an alleged kidnapping.
Wilson (38) was found without incident in Frankton about 9.20pm, police said in a statement last night.
A fuller update on the situation would be issued today, police said.
Wilson was the last man police were seeking in connection with an alleged kidnapping in the resort last Tuesday. The police manhunt began on Friday.
About 3pm yesterday, Queenstown police located Joshua Veint (23) and Lilly Boden (21) in the Glenorchy area as a result of information received from the public.
The pair were transported to the Queenstown Police Station, arriving in separate, unmarked vehicles.
Neither appeared to be handcuffed.
Veint, wearing a dark-coloured hoodie and jeans, shielded his face as he walked, unassisted, into the police station.
Miss Boden, who police believed was a friend of Veint, was also unassisted as she entered the station.
There was a heavy police presence in the resort yesterday, including multiple unmarked police cars, plain-clothes officers and armed offenders squad members.
Just before 2pm, three unmarked vehicles carrying detectives and a dog unit left the Queenstown Police Station and headed to Glenorchy.
They appeared to conduct an operation near the Routeburn area.
A short time later, a press release was issued confirming Veint and Miss Boden had been located.
In the lead-up to Wilson being found, two marked police cars parked outside an Edinburgh St address about 6pm, with AOS members seated inside.
Both marked and unmarked police cars were dotted around Queenstown Hill and Frankton Rd, with several unmarked cars leaving the Queenstown Police Station just before 8.30pm, along with a command unit.
About the time Wilson was found at 9.20pm, police officers were stationed along Frankton Rd, with AOS members walking along the Frankton Track, between Goldfield Heights and the Frankton Marina.
Arcadia Station owner Jim Veint, who is Joshua's grandfather, said he was pleased his grandson had been found.
He was unsure why his grandson did not hand himself in earlier.
''The whole thing's quite confusing. I can't understand even why ... first of all; they weren't going to get very far, and it was just a useless exercise.
''They might have got scared off by the big blast on the first day; if they'd seen that on TV, and wanted it to cool down a while, but look I don't know,'' he said. Otago Rural relieving area commander Inspector Olaf Jensen said police were speaking to Veint and Miss Boden.
The pair were described as ''safe and well''.
Mark Junior Taylor (17) appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Tuesday on a kidnapping charge and was remanded on bail to appear in the Queenstown court on January 12.
A 36-year-old Queenstown man, whose name is suppressed, has been charged with assisting Wilson to avoid arrest. He will appear in the Queenstown District Court on December 23.
