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AOS nab wanted man BY KATIE TODD

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A wanted person was arrested during an operation that saw Police and the Armed Offenders Squad swarming Racecourse Road on Wednesday evening. Teams descended on the Allenton street at about 7pm, where they successfully located and arrested a man “wanted for family harm incidents in Christch-

urch,” Ashburton Police Senior Sergeant Mark Worner said. Residents reported looking out their windows and seeing dozens of police vehicles, police dogs and about 10 armed officers at the scene during the operation. Worner said the man was returned to Christchurch by police officers, where he appeared in Court yesterday on family harm related charges.

He said the incident was unrelated to an earlier incident which occurred in Hornby, Christchurch, where the armed offenders had also been seen responding to an attempted robbery of an Armourguard cash-in-transit vehicle. Later that night, Police sirens were again echoing around Allenton as a vehicle pursuit took place.

The pursuit began around Chalmers Avenue at 3.23am on Thursday morning, and police said the driver ended up stopping their car on Rakaia Highway and running from their vehicle. “A police dog unit attempted to track him but unfortunately he was not able to be located at the time,” a police spokesperson said.

Senior Sergeant Mark Worner

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