30 Jul 2010

Boy in court on firearms charges

7:42 pm on 30 July 2010

A boy is to appear in the Hasting Youth Court on firearms charges.

Senior Sergeant Stu Fleming says police received a call about a cyclist in the suburb of Flaxmere on Thursday morning, shooting at dogs with an air pistol.

An armed offenders squad on a routine exercise cordoned off several streets in the suburb of Flaxmere.

Teachers at the Kimiora school keep pupils inside during the alert.