Police are looking for a man who was the subject of an Armed Offenders Squad callout in Napier yesterday.
Teargas was fired into an Onekawa house during the AOS callout after reports of a domestic incident - but the wanted man wasn't inside.
Officers are now looking for Shane Teddy, 49, in relation to the incident.
"Police believe Teddy had earlier presented a firearm at his partner and had barricaded himself inside the house and refused to come out. There was no response to loud hailer appeals and police fired teargas into the house," police said in a statement this evening.
"Teddy was not in the house and has been eluding police since yesterday."