{"id":41670,"date":"2023-12-31T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=41670"},"modified":"2023-12-31T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T11:17:00","slug":"police-say-lower-sackville-man-head-butted-officer-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=41670","title":{"rendered":"Police say Lower Sackville man &#8220;head butted&#8221; officer during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> A 28-year-old man from Lower Sackville has been charged assault-related offences, including &#8220;headbutting an arresting officer in the face.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halifax RCMP said on Dec. 30 that police responded to Coles Road in Lower Sackville on Dec. 29 at approximately 10:50 p.m. after being informed of an assault at a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;RCMP officers learned that a man had assaulted a woman, who is known to him, threatened her with a weapon and damaged property in the home,&#8221; said Cpl. Chris Marshall, N.S. RCMP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said when RCMP officers arrived, the man exited the home and began threatening them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A conducted energy weapon (CEW) was deployed and after a brief struggle, the man was placed in handcuffs,&#8221; said Cpl. Marshall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assault to the officer then took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While RCMP officers were escorting the man to the police car, the man headbutted one of the officers in the face, resulting in minor injuries to the officer,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray Saxon Fancy, 28, of Lower Sackville, has been charged with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Committing an Assault by Choking, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uttering Threats (three counts), <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assaulting a Peace Officer and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resisting Arrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fancy has been remanded into custody and will appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court on January 2, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #: 23-158015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;206&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;] LOWER SACKVILLE: A 28-year-old man from Lower Sackville has been charged assault-related offences, including &#8220;headbutting an arresting officer in the face.&#8217; Halifax RCMP said on Dec. 30 that police responded to Coles Road in Lower Sackville on Dec. 29 at approximately 10:50 p.m. after being informed of an assault at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[424,50,13,14],"class_list":["post-41670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-assault","tag-halifax","tag-lower-sackville","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670","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=41670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670\/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=41670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}