WELLINGTON: Firearm incident at Sale


Police have charged a man following an incident where a firearm was allegedly discharged at a vehicle in Bolitho Court in Sale on Tuesday (Mar. 24).
The 24-year-old Sale man self-presented to a police station on Wednesday (Mar. 25)about 2.30pm.
Wellington Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged him with four counts of reckless conduct endangering life, three counts of making threats to kill, criminal damage, using a firearm when a firearm prohibition order applies, discharging a firearm at a vehicle and using a firearm in contravention of a firearm prohibition order.
He was remanded to appear at the Sale Magistrates’ Court on March 28.
The incident is alleged to have occurred at approximately 7.40am on Tuesday (Mar. 24).
Detectives are still investigating a second incident which s is said to have occurred at the same address on March 22. No one was injured during the incidents.