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Attributable to Detective Sergeant Mark Leathem, Coromandel Hauraki CIB:
A man has been arrested after an incident yesterday where a firearm was discharged near a popular Thames swimming hole.
Police were called about 5pm to the location on Kauaeranga Valley Road after reports that a man had threatened members of the public and discharged a shot into the air.
He then allegedly discarded the weapon into vegetation before leaving in a vehicle with another party.