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A man who had been on the run in South Australia for more than 24 hours has been arrested at gunpoint after he allegedly collided with another car while trying to evade police.
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Officers found Jake Dohnt, 25, north of Port Wakefield about 5.40pm on Tuesday and took him into custody following a search that began after he allegedly pointed a handgun at police in Wallaroo on Monday.
The incident, in which an officer fired a shot at him, prompted police to put the Yorke Peninsula town into partial lockdown.
As police continued to search houses and other properties in the Wallaroo area on Tuesday, they were tipped off Dohnt was driving a grey Holden sedan.
Officers later spotted the car travelling north on Port Wakefield Rd in the Adelaide suburb of St Kilda about 4pm.
The police helicopter was called in and traffic was stopped north and south of Port Wakefield, which is about 60km from Wallaroo.
Police say the vehicle went through road spikes twice but Dohnt kept driving.
He allegedly collided with another car, 2km from the Port Augusta and Copper Coast highways, about 5.35pm and fled.
Police chased him into a paddock and arrested him at gunpoint.
The driver of the second car suffered minor injuries. Dohnt and police were uninjured.
Police say they found a firearm in the backyard of a Wallaroo home on Tuesday afternoon.
Dohnt was taken to Kadina for questioning and is expected to face court on Wednesday.
Earlier on Tuesday, Inspector Alison Clark said police had tried to contact the 25-year-old on his mobile phone and had pleaded for Dohnt to return text messages and calls made to him.
Insp Clark had said it was believed Dohnt had been in the Wallaroo area before his arrest.
It was also believed some people in the town had been helping him evade police.
"My message to them is that by harbouring Jake Dohnt they are committing serious offences," Insp Clark said.
Police had lifted the exclusion zone in Wallaroo by Tuesday afternoon, allowing some residents who had been unable to access their properties to go home.
Dohnt was wanted after SA police tried to pull him over on the Spencer Highway at 1am on Monday.
He allegedly refused and continued on before being seen again about 1pm, when he allegedly pointed the handgun at police, near the area put into lockdown.
Australian Associated Press