Police, including armed offenders squad members, flooded Halfway Bush yesterday morning, cordoning off a section of Taieri Rd for hours as they searched for a man believed to be armed.
Officers eventually arrested him in the early afternoon, after tracking him to the Wakari Dog Park.
However for most of the morning, police attention was focused 700m further up Taieri Rd, at a property near the corner of Spiers Rd, following an incident reported about 10.45am.
"After yelling at him for quite a while to come out, they eventually entered the house," he said.
"They had a wee robotic drone that they were driving in there to try and figure out if he was home or not."
Video shows four officers approaching the house with a raised riot shield and guns drawn.
The resident had been told by neighbours police were responding to reports the occupant had a loaded pistol.
Police had thoroughly searched the house, he said.
A police spokesman said cordons were stood down at about 2.15pm and some officers had been armed as a precaution.
A 36-year-old man was due to appear in Dunedin District Court today, charged with breaching a protection order.
"We wish to thank the public for their co-operation while cordons were in place." — Additional reporting Mark John
