A MAN has just been arrested by Wiltshire Police officers on suspicion of possession of a weapon outside Rudi's in the town centre.
The suspect has been taken to custody at Gablecross Police Station.
The Advertiser's reporter at the scene says officers were called after a man threatened a police officer with a wooden plank.
Katie Forrester, manager of Rudi's Bar, said: “We just saw this guy who was arrested with a massive plank of wood.
"There was one police officer and the guy was trying to whack him with this plank.
"Someone else – a police officer – came with a police baton. They were trying to pin him down.”
The man was described as tall, white, well-built and allegedly told officers his birth year was 1985, making him 31 or 32 years of age.
He was holding a plank of wood roughly two to three feet long.
James Taylor, 36, a stonemason who was drinking with friends in the bar at the time of the arrest, said: “He was just waving it [the plank] about at some policeman.
"Within ten minutes there were five police cars.
"He was shouting: ‘Get off me, get off my colostomy bag'.”
Among the police officers called to the scene was a dog unit, which was the last car to drive away from outside Rudi's Bar.
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