A man has been convicted of obstruction after he showed up intoxicated at a routine traffic stop and began interrupting police as they spoke to the occupants of a car.
The Whanganui District Court heard Isaac Samuel McGregor wandered up to the traffic stop on January 31 and approached police as they spoke to people in a car. He also began speaking to the car's occupants, who did not know him.
After being warned several times to stop distracting police and interrupting, McGregor was told he was under arrest, at which point he made a run for it.
He was not located at that time, police prosecutor Sergeant Rachel Willemsen told the court on Tuesday.
McGregor was found and arrested at a later date, she said.