A group of Napier Pokemon hunters caught something better than a Pikachu while out playing the game last night.
The group were near the Perfume Point carpark in Ahuriri when they heard a car alarm go off and then seconds later a man ran past them wearing a horror mask.
Police say they followed the masked man in their van and pulled up next to him as he was getting into another car.
The man, still wearing his mask allegedly came up to the game hunters and it was at
that point they realised he had been interfering with the car where the alarm had gone off.
The Pokemon hunters then grabbed the masked man and held him while another phoned police.