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RAWDON:<\/strong> A 28-year-old Barton man is facing a slew of charges after police received a report of suspicious activity on Sept. 11 in Rawdon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, the community policing officer, said the incident was reported to police at approximately 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police were advised by the complainant that there was a man driving a truck up and down a driveway of a residence all the while screaming out the window. Officers responded and located the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnce our officers activated the police lights, the driver fled by driving into a nearby driveway,\u2019 said Const. Burns. \u201cOne of our officers was able to intercept him but the driver did not stop and rammed his police vehicle with his truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe other officer blocked the driver from the rear, so he was unable to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Const. Burns said both officers were able to make contact with the driver, but he refused to exit the vehicle after being told that he was under arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe officer forced the driver out of his vehicle and a struggle ensued,” said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe driver punched one of our officers in the face before they were able to gain control and get him in handcuffs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said no serious injuries were sustained by the responding police officers or the driver during the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cody Andrew Prudhomme, 28, was taken into custody and has been charged with the following offences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flight from Police, S. 320.17 CC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Impaired driving, S. 320.14(1)(a) CC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resist Arrest, S. 129(a) CC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assault Police Officer, S.270(2) CC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fail to comply with Release Order x 3, S. 145(5)(a) CC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assault with a weapon, S. 267(a) CC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mischief, S. 430(4) CC<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Const. Burns said the investigation continues into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFurther charges are pending,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prudhomme was scheduled to make his first court appearance on Sept. 12 in Truro Provincial Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”84″] [adrotate banner=”78″] RAWDON: A 28-year-old Barton man is facing a slew of charges after police received a report of suspicious activity on Sept. 11 in Rawdon. East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, the community policing officer, said the incident was reported to police at approximately 8:30 p.m. Police were advised by the complainant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12,957],"tags":[424,196,390,48,1193,14],"class_list":["post-38584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-news","tag-assault","tag-east-hants","tag-enfield","tag-n-s","tag-rawdon","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38584","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=38584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}