A man believed to be on-the-run Shawn Harding was arrested in Napier on Thursday afternoon.
Police had been searching for Harding since January and had warned the public that he was “armed and dangerous”.
A police spokeswoman confirmed on Thursday night that a 40-year-old with an arrest warrant for “driving-related offences” was taken into custody on McGrath St.
Harding, 40, fitted that description.
The spokeswoman said this “individual was arrested after being spotted by an off-duty member of police, who called for assistance”.
Harding was the target of a destructive, costly and unsuccessful police siege in January.
In 2005 he was sentenced to seven years jail for stabbing his former partner in front of his two young children and for assault with a weapon relating to the road rage incident, in which he threatened a TV3 employee whom he chased with an axe while in a drug-induced rage.
The apprehended man is due to appear in Hastings District Court tomorrow.
-Stuff
