A man has been fined $1,000 after running away from police.

Jemal Anderson, 26, pleaded guilty at Magistrates’ Court this morning to obstruction.

Prosecutor Nicole Smith said police had been called to Front Street, near the Wine Cellar, on August 19 after reports a group of men were fighting and throwing bottles.

Anderson was in the area and was not involved in the fight, but ran away when approached by officers.

“Police shouted stop, he did not,” Ms Smith told the court. “He ran along Front Street on to Burnaby Street and continued to run, from one side of the road to the other in an effort to evade police.

“Police shouted stop, he continued to run and a Taser was deployed. He was arrested for obstruction and taken to Hamilton Police Station.”

Anderson, who works as a chef, apologised to Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner and said he had been “in the wrong place at the wrong time”.

“I realise I shouldn’t have ran,” he said. “I wasn’t involved in the fight, I didn’t want to be mixed up with the fight.”

Mr Warner imposed a $1,000 to be paid by September 30 or Anderson faces 30 days in prison for defaulting.