Taupō Area Investigations Manager Detective Senior Sergeant Ryan Yardley:

One person has been taken into custody following a firearms incident outside
a premises on Rifle Range Road on Thursday evening.

At around 8pm, Police received a report of a firearm discharged in the
carpark of a Four Square, fortunately no one was injured.

Thanks to help from the public and extensive enquiries Police have arrested
and charged a 31-year-old man.

He is due to appear in the Rotorua district court 3 June on charges of
possession and discharging a firearm.

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