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Specialist negotiators spent three hours at a Christchurch property trying to coax out a wanted man.
Police negotiated with an armed man for more than three hours at a Christchurch property before taking him into custody.
Residents were told to stay inside their houses as armed police surrounded a Barbour St, Waltham property about 5.30pm on Thursday.
The man was thought to have a gun and had fled from police earlier in the evening. He was arrested at 8.45pm.
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A 32-year-old man is due to appear in Christchurch District Court on Friday charged with receiving property, unlawfully being in building, unlawfully possessing a firearm and wilful damage, among other charges.
Along with the armed officers, two dog units, a fire truck and an ambulance were at the scene.
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Police cordon off a property in Waltham, Christchurch to arrest a wanted man.
The police cordon stretched from Barbour St to Lismore St and along Charles St.
Police negotiators helped officers take the man into custody.
“Thankfully no-one was injured,” a police spokesperson said.
The man had several warrants out for his arrest.
Police said there was no link between this arrest and a homicide inquiry launched after Richard Leman’s body was found in a car at a derelict Rangiora property’s garage.