More than 50 people watched on as 18 police officers and two negotiators talked the 24-year-old Weaver down from a Schaefer Street house.

Witnesses said Weaver was chased by police through several yards before he climbed onto a roof about 12.45pm.

The street was blocked for three hours as Weaver paced the tiled roof with his shirt tied around his head and his sunglasses on.

He ripped tiles from the roof, which he smashed and threw at police.

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Weaver — who had been wanted over traffic offences, intimidation offences, assault, aggravated break and enter and other charges — remained in police custody overnight and will face Albury court today.

Resident of a neighbouring house, Colleen, said she heard the chase from inside her house.

“I was in the bedroom and heard running outside the window and someone was pulling on the gate, but I knew I had locked it,” she said.

“I came outside and an officer was in the driveway and asked if I had seen anything.

“Then I looked down the road and he was on the roof of one of the houses.”

Weaver’s parents, grandfather and sister stood with police while his ex-girlfriend Sara-Jane Malyon was also there with their one-year-old son.

“I thought if we brought his son down here it would make him come down, but it didn’t work,” she said.

“He cracked it when the police told us to move away with his son, I just thought he wouldn’t have wanted him to see all this.”

Weaver became noticeably agitated just after 3pm when he began yelling, swearing and gesturing to the crowd.

Twenty minutes later he finally gave in to negotiators and climbed down into police custody.

Albury Chief Inspector Kim Sorensen said they had been trying to catch Weaver for the best part of a month.

“The police worked extremely well in trying conditions and the calibre of officers that were there was a credit to Albury,” Insp Sorensen said.