Location:

Waikato

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.