A Roxburgh woman travelling home with her newborn baby, left the father on the side of the road in Lawrence last week after she was upset about his driving.

Alexandra Police Senior Constable Graham Perkins said the man eventually found his way home and continued to be aggressive towards the new mother and the father-in-law.

Snr Const Perkins said the man was told to leave but ended up at the neighbours house where he continued to be aggressive and "slammed" the neighbour into the ground.

Police were called to the incident which both the Roxburgh officer and a member of the rural police team attended.  

“The man burst back into the house and wrestled one of the officers.”

The new Taser 10 was deployed, which has 10 probes instead of the standard two, and the man was also pepper sprayed.

He was remanded in custody on nine different charges related to the incident.

Earlier that day in Roxburgh, a tourist tried to overtake a truck with insufficient road ahead, which the truck driver managed to film him on his dash cam.

Snr Constable Perkins said luckily the oncoming vehicle took evasive action, but the driver was stopped in Roxburgh, where more “poor” driving was witnessed by police.

The man and his wife and children, who were enroute to Queenstown and ready to fly home, were escorted to Dunedin and into court facing dangerous driving charges.

And, in Alexandra on August 14, a gang member, who had been on the run for four months, was arrested and taken into custody after police saw him leaving an address that was familiar to them.

The man had cut off his home detention ankle bracelet and there was a warrant for his arrest.