Tokoroa

Suspicious activeity involving firearm

Wednesday, 13 August 2014 - 2:33pm

Bay of Plenty

Police are speaking to a number of people from a house in Tokoroa after reports of suspicious behaviour involving a firearm.

At about11:30 this morning police received a call from a person who had seen three people in a car near Tokoroa pointing what appeared to be a rifle out of the vehicle.

Shortly afterwards a second caller reported hearing what sounded like a gun shot in the same vicinity.

Police placed cordons around an area just North of Tokoroa and surrounded a house in Paraonui Road.

Officers made a phone call to the address four people came out of the house were interviewed by police.

The cordons have now been removed. At this stage no firearms have been located, and no offences have been dislcosed.

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