14 Dec 2020

Alcohol-fuelled violence on increase in Auckland - police

From Checkpoint, 6:22 pm on 14 December 2020

There's been another incident at a central Auckland bar involving a gun - the third in a space of a month.

In the latest, the police were called after a person was seen at a bar on Sale Street with a gun on Friday night.

No shots were fired - and no one was injured - but bar staff had to step in to take the gun off the person, who was later arrested.

That adds to two other people who are before the courts, after shootings at both Dr Rudi's on the Viaduct and Calendar Girls on Karangahape Rd.

Here's our reporter, Sarah Robson.