Tuesday March 19th 2012, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) N.S. ….. Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) Sackville office, are presently investigating several offences involving a 31 year old male resident of Mt Uniake.
The initial complaint came at 19:12 hours of a male who went to his former place of employment on Cobequid Road, in a very drunken and angry condition. He threw chairs around in the business, tried to start fights with persons on site and urinated in the outside parking lot, prior to driving away in a Pontiac Sunfire. The integrated dispatch centre then started to receive complaints at 19:24 hours from the motoring public, of this same vehicle driving in a very reckless and life threatening manner in the area of Glendale Drive and Beaverbank Road. At 19:35 hours a marked police unit tried to stop the suspect vehicle with its emergency equipment in the area of 833 Sackville Drive. The driver refused to stop and tried to flee in the Sunfire, driving out the 101 Highway towards Mt. Uniake. The suspect vehicle was immobilized and stopped with a spike belt near exit 3 on Highway 101. The driver was taken into custody at 19:41 hours. Another complaint was then received that this same suspect vehicle and been involved in an earlier hit and run accident on at the intersection of Stokil Drive and Beaverbank Road. The 31 year old male resident of Mt. Uniake will be held in custody overnight and will appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court in the am on numerous driving related offences. No one was injured in any of the incidents reported to date. The suspect is a suspended driver and is currently on a undertaking not to drink due to an outstanding impaired driving and driving over 80 milligrams charge, that are still before the courts. The matter is still under investigation.
Update:
June 20, 2012, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) . . . RCMP in Lower Sackville have laid charges following an incident on Hwy 101 in Lower Sackville last night.