Two men were arrested at gunpoint on the footpath of a residential Masterton street late yesterday morning amid reports of domestic assault and firearms.
Masterton police Senior Sergeant Warwick Burr said officers had been called to the Bentley St home after a woman at the address alleged she had been assaulted. He said another call was fielded about the same time saying somebody at the address or nearby had been "indiscriminately firing a slug gun".
Rifles and pistols were distributed to officers and a police dog and handler were also brought in and a cordon was thrown up at either end of the street. "Officers were armed because of the allegation a slug rifle was being fired in the vicinity and armed police managed to get the residents to leave the address without incident."
The men walked from the home and were lying face down on the footpath while three armed police officers and a dog handler with a dog on a leash approached. They were handcuffed and bundled into an unmarked police car and a young woman with an infant in her arms left the scene on foot.
Police are investigating.
