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EASTERN PASSAGE:<\/strong> A 43-year-old Eastern Passage man has been charged with multiple firearms and assault-related offences following an incident late on Thursday night Feb. 3 on Cow Bay Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a release, Halifax District RCMP say that at approximately 8 p.m. yesterday evening (Feb. 3), police responded to a firearm complaint at a home on Cow Bay Rd. in Eastern Passage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Police learned that a man had pointed a firearm at another resident of the home before a physical altercation occurred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The victim fled the home before police arrival and the home was contained while police attempted to confirm that the man was still inside the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shortly after 11 p.m., after confirming that the man was still inside the home, police began negotiation attempts for the man to surrender peacefully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At approximately 1:45 a.m., the man surrendered to police and was taken into custody without further incident. No one was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jason Andrew Purdy, 43, of Eastern Passage, has been charged with the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Uttering Threats (2 counts);<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Unlawful Confinement (2 counts);<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Pointing a Firearm (2 counts);<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Assault (4 counts);<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Unsafe Storage of a Firearm (10 counts);<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Careless Use of a Firearm (11 counts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Purdy has been remanded into custody and will appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court later today, Feb. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n File #: 22-14368<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”95″] [adrotate banner=”127″] EASTERN PASSAGE: A 43-year-old Eastern Passage man has been charged with multiple firearms and assault-related offences following an incident late on Thursday night Feb. 3 on Cow Bay Road. In a release, Halifax District RCMP say that at approximately 8 p.m. yesterday evening (Feb. 3), police responded to a firearm complaint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[2513,3143,14],"class_list":["post-26264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eastern-passage","tag-firearms-offences","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}